We live in an era of specialty, a time of the hyper-focused expert—the journalist who writes exclusively about artificial intelligence, the vlogger who can describe every ride at Disney in great detail. Yxta Maya Murray, 56, is not one of those people. A Los Angeles lawyer and legal scholar (she’s on the faculty at Loyola Marymount University), Murray is a writer of polymathic interests. She produced analyses for legal journals; she has written art criticism for Artforum and Artillery. Since 1998, she has also published an impressive number of novels—eight!—with another on the way. Murray draws from an eclectic array of subjects, including Mexican colonial chronicles and a partial nuclear meltdown at a Southern California laboratory in the 1950s.

by Carolina A. Miranda

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