Writer, editor, translator and critic of books of fiction, art, culture, history and religion from the Middle East focusing on Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Algeria, Palestine, Spain, Mexico and Latin America. Camacho is a Comparative Literature (Spanish, French, and Italian) graduate of UC Berkeley and cu

Deconstructive, Minimal, Political, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Power, Religious

Absurd, Angry, Baroque, Beautiful , Bright, Bubblicious, Cartoonish, Clean, Clever, Cool, Dark, Decorative, Dissonant, Distorted, Dramatic, Ecstatic, Excessive, Experimental, Fantastic, Figurative, Glamour, Grand, Improvised, Intense, Intimate, Masculine, Moody, Neurotic, Organic, Political, Pop, Primal, Psychedelic, Psychological, Rebel, Religious, Serene, Sophisticated, Spiritual, Surreal, Technology, Tranquil, Trippy, Violent, Whimsical, Wise assy, Witty

At the mention of international intrigue and espionage, we naturally think of dashing secret agents who play roulette in Monacco while dressed in sparkling white dinner jackets. If the story involves a mad dictator, we expect his adversary to be a clever and precise dandy, whose smart lip can undo th

Ironic, Melancholy, Post-war literature, Power, Religious, Tragic

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was an exceptional seventeenth-century nun who set precedents for feminism long before the term or concept existed. Her "Respuesta" is a maverick work outlining the logical sense of women's education more than 200 years before Woolf's "A Room of One's Own." Her poetry, meanw

17th century literature, Feminist, Pioneering, Religious, Sublime