The novelist Cecilia Szperling
mines the literary roots of her Confesionario series of reading-performances and argues that these can loosen the straitjacket of good taste imposed on Argentine writers by the ghost of Borges

Photo by: Stefania Fumo

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Interpreting the menu

The academic Nathanial Gardner
has tasted the many flavours of the classic Mexican novel and film
Como agua para chocolate, and explains why this best-selling work left audiences so satisfied Continue reading

The dictatorship of gender

Argentine novelist Cecilia Szperling - whose Natural Selection has just hit the shelves - would prefer it if readers did not know the gender of a writer Continue reading

Words in revolution

Does the ‘democratisation of culture’ in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez spell indoctrination?
When it comes to publishing, the jury is still out, say Montague Kobbe and Adolfo Calero Continue reading

The Earth turned to bring us closer

If an image is worth a thousand words, some of those will need to be read, not heard, to be fully understood. Montague Kobbe and Adolfo Calero explore poetry and the cinematic code

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The phone booth on the corner

David Iaconangelo explains why he founded ZafraLit, a new blog featuring writing by contemporary Cuban authors translated into English Continue reading

Blood, sweat, and spray

What’s not to like? Massive burners, dripping whole trains, end-to-end street murals? Mathieu Kendrick looks at everything that makes Graffiti Argentina special Continue reading

Knot and noose

By exploiting Kennedy’s style, Barack Obama has drawn attention to Cuba’s role in the lionised former president’s foreign policy failures, writes Gavin O’Toole

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(Sleazy) tales of revolution and betrayal

Ronald Flores examines the work of the Salvadorean novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya, one of Central America’s most prolific writers whose Senselessness (Insensatez) was published this year by New Directions Continue reading

Behind the cover

Jack Child, author of the pioneering semiotic study of Latin American stamps, Miniature Messages, reveals why his 60-year project has been a labour of love - and what we can learn from the political statements concealed within these images Continue reading

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