Paul Gillingham's Reading List

Historian at Northwestern; author of Mexico: A 500-Year History (2026).

Books from Conversations with Tyler: Paul Gillingham on Why Mexico Stays Together (2026)

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of Conversations with Tyler (2026-04-01).

Carlos Fuentes · 1962 · Buy on Amazon

"Artemio Cruz, The Death of Artemio Cruz. The human complexity of it."

Álvaro Enrigue · Buy on Amazon

"Decency, Decencia, which anybody who likes Mexican history will love."

Álvaro Enrigue · 2023 · Buy on Amazon

"You Dreamed of Empires in English, which is a heist by a bunch of fortunate thugs, which I think is a fantastic book."