Lyrical and violent, `The Arid Sky` Mexican novelist Emiliano Monge is a striking desert noir
(LA Times Dodgers)

Violent stories, one argument goes, inevitably endorse violence. No matter how much pacifist moralizing a writer brings to a war story, it will always play up the thrill and clamor of battle to some degree. And a murder tale will always stoke our voyeuristic urge to witness violence. That´s not...