Tequendama Falls, or The Encroachment of Old Catastrophes
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In this all-fiction issue, Melissa Llanes Brownlee considers marine and family life in a triptych beginning with “tako poke.” A boy moves through the wake of his mother’s death in Fred Arroyo’s “Crow Bar.” And a loving son tries to protect his mother in Lisa Warternberg Vélez’s “Tequendama Falls, or The Encroachment of Old Catastrophes.”
Stills from Witness in the City (1959), directed by Éduard Molinaro. The screenplay was written by Boileau-Narcejac, the pen name used by Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906 – 16 January 1989) and Pierre Ayraud, also known as Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908 – 7 June 1998).