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: ...

Hernán Cortés meeting Moctezuma in 1519 holds some space in our North American imagination. ... 'You Dreamed of Empires' reimagines collision of Cortes, Moctezuma. May 24, 2024 ...

Cortés had conquered the city by 1521, and to honor that original encounter, he founded the hospital in 1524. The meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma is depicted in a floor-to-ceiling tile mural ...

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 ...

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 ...