Yuri Herrera

In the court of the King, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable and part crime romance, Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera questions the price of keeping your integrity in a world ruled by patronage and power. Described as...

Hilarious and horrifying, Yuri Herrera's The Transmigration of Bodies is a gritty, feverish novella, written in dazzling prose that is both bawdy and poetic. A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to...

The Mexico we hear of in the news — the drug cartels, migration, and senseless violence — is rich soil for Herrera's moving stories of people who live in this reality but also live in the timeless realm of myth, epic, and fairy tale. This includes characters such as the singer Lobo in Kingdom Cons who loves the drug lord's...