Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico Kieran Egan the more familiar we become

the more familiar we become with joy

still haunted by his wife's death

excoriating

Accompanied by the unmistakable illustrations of Arthur Rackham

Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico Kieran Egan the more familiar we becomeAt once intimate and wide ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through