Reviews in June 2008

LatAmRoB, Volume 2, Number 5


The crisis of despotic patronage

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The Mexican novelist Enrique Serna, whose blistering critique of his country’s cultural elite, Fear of Animals, is published this month, savages the literary and artistic cliques who have for so long enjoyed a free lunch Continue reading

The agony of irony

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The Colombian artist Fernando Botero has painted images of US torture in Iraq that defy his preference for the improbable
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Treasure island

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Roberto Márquez’s comprehensive anthology, Puerto Rican Poetry, is a priceless resource for anyone exploring the nation’s verse through history

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Green tragedy

John Hemming’s history of Amazon exploration,
Tree of Rivers, highlights how this unique region continues to be traded over 500 years after the first European foray Continue reading

Savaged by cultural carnivores

Perceptions of Mexico’s lofty intelligentsia will never be the same again after the publication of Enrique Serna’s eye-opening Fear of Animals Continue reading

The grotesque paradox of culture

The Mexican novelist Enrique Serna, whose corrosive critique of his country’s cultural mafias, Fear of Animals, has just been published in English, talks to Gavin O’Toole about his novel and the problem with elites Continue reading

Lonely hearts club

Anahi Bernieri’s A Year Without Love is a sensitive yet challenging exploration of the loneliness suffered by a gay HIV-positive man in Buenos Aires Continue reading

Music to die for

In its blunt portrayal of guerrilla war in Mexico,
El Violin has a recoil that will dislocate your senses Continue reading

Fando y Lis

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¡Hugo! The Hugo Chávez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution

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Zama

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