CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: Grieving For America

PART ONE

THE RISE OF DONALD J. TRUMP

1. Phillip II, the Sixteenth Century Spanish Monarch, Writes to His Excellency Donald Trump

2. America Meets Frankenstein

3. My Mother and Trump’s Border

4. Latin American Food and the Failure of Trump’s Wall

5. Faulkner’s Question for America

PART TWO

THE JUDGMENT OF HISTORY

6. Now, America, You Know How Chile Felt

7. The River Kwai Passes Through the Latin America and the Potomac: What it Feels Like to be Tortured

8. Words of Encouragement for Donald J. Trump from James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States

9. A Message from the End of the World

10. Should Iago Be Tortured?

11. Mission Akkomplished: From Comrade Bush to Tovarisch Trump

PART THREE

MODELS OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PAST

12. Martin Luther King Marches On

13. Searching for Mandela

14. The Truth That Made Her Free

15. Reading Cervantes in Captivity

16. The Dancing Cosmos of Albert Einstein

17. Revisiting Melville in Chile

PART FOUR

WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

18. Homeland Security Ate My Speech

19. Alice in Leftland: Will You, Won’t You Dance?

20. They’re Watching Us: So What?

21. How We Overcame Tyranny Before: Take Heart, Friends

22. The Whispering Leaves of the Hiroshima Ginko Trees

A NOTE ON THE ESSAYS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS