Bárbara Mujica Books in Order

Frida Kahlo’s life unfolds through the turmoil of her relationship with painter Diego Rivera and her rivalry with her sister Cristina. This historical novel explores the intimate loyalties, artistic identities, and competing desires surrounding the celebrated Mexican artist.

This anthology brings together writing by women of Spain’s Golden Age, including poetry, theater, and religious works. Spanish selections appear with contextual introductions, annotations, and discussion topics, revealing intellectual lives often obscured by the circumstances of their production.

Teresa of Ávila pursues an intensely personal faith while challenging religious authority in sixteenth-century Spain. This fictional portrait follows her spiritual visions, reform efforts, and private struggles against the dangers and restrictions of the Spanish Inquisition.

The mysterious model for the Rokeby Venus narrates Diego Velázquez’s rise in seventeenth-century Spain. His artistic ambition unfolds amid court intrigue, romantic scandal, and a troubled kingdom, revealing the tensions between his public achievements and private life.

Women from different countries describe the consequences of armed conflict through fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, and reportage. Their accounts explore life as combatants, mothers, resisters, and survivors, bringing experiences often marginalized in conventional war literature into focus.

These stories follow soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, veterans returning to civilian life, and families waiting at home. Drawing on accounts shared by veterans, Mujica explores fear, moral choices, loss, and unexpected connections amid war.

Dolores del Río leaves revolutionary Mexico and becomes a Hollywood star under director Edwin Carewe’s guidance. This historical novel follows her ambitions, relationships, and personal losses as she navigates fame and builds a career across two film industries.