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“... I didn’t cross​ the line, the line crossed me,’ a character in Yuri Herrera’s first book, Trabajos del reino (2004), remarks. In Mexico ‘la línea’ often means the border with the US, but in this case the words also refer to an ethical transition: the speaker is a former US law enforcement official who decided to throw in his lot with the narcos he had been pursuing ...”

“... wished he could write without any, but his own novels show that he couldn’t. The Mexican writer Yuri Herrera can’t quite get rid of them either, though he toys with the idea. Here’s the start of one story in Ten Planets: ‘&°°° couldn’t be happier. @°°° couldn’t be happier. The twins, *~ and #~, couldn’t be happier.’ You soon come to ...”