Under the World

Author: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

Publisher: The 87 Press (2024)

This is "a roots rave manifesto / to free literature." The second installment in Oscar Guardiola-Rivera's Night of the World trilogy, Out of the World continues Hoodoo Girl's adventures, alongside the trickster Ix. This mythopoetic narrative—told in three episodes—is inspired by the Mayan epic Popol Vuh, where "plot is overrated" and musicality abounds. Lay your ear to the ground and follow these unearthly threads, the syncopated beats where the colonial encounter animates the Angel of History to reveal the masquerade that surrounds us all.