Álvaro Enrigue's new novel reimagines Hernán Cortés' and Moctezuma's empires : NPR's Book of the Day You Dreamed of Empires sets the scene for a violent historical encounter: the war between ...

Matthew Restall’s 2018 book “When Montezuma Met Cortes: the True Story of the Meeting That Changed History” and Camilla Townsend’s 2019 work, “Fifth Sun: ...

While Cortés held Tenochtitlán through Montezuma, a Spanish force from Cuba landed on the coast of Mexico in the spring of 1520. It had been sent by Velázquez to unseat Cortés.

Sometimes you don’t know just how much you don’t know. I came to that realization while reading “You Dreamed of Empires,” Álvaro Enrigue’s excellent new novel (translated by Natasha ...

Sometimes you don’t know just how much you don’t know. I came to that realization while reading “You Dreamed of Empires,” Álvaro Enrigue’s excellent new novel (translated by Natasha Wimmer) about the ...