Alexander Missal demonstrates that the construction site of the Panama Canal was not just filled with mud and water - but with meaning for the US as it began
to assert itself on the world stage

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Noir of many colours

Leonardo Padura, Havana’s master of the novela negra, tells Gavin O’Toole about his new novel on the murder of Trotsky, freedom of speech in Cuba, and whether his inimitable creation, Mario Conde, will ever die Continue reading

Mexicans get their mojo working

From the zoot suit to Lalo Guerrero, nowehere has Chicano influence been as pronounced as in Los Angeles. Anthony Macías takes a cultural journey through music Continue reading

The mestizo medium

Fusion and equilibrium are the principles on which the Chilean visual poet Sergio Pinto Briones has based his effervescent debut collection Barbaridades in Situ Continue reading

Forbidden territory

La Zona is a tense foray into
the moral maze that the fear
of crime has generated across
Latin America Continue reading

Madness in crescendo

Patrícia Melo’s Black Waltz takes the reader on a gripping journey into the discordant world of a
troubled Brazilian composer Continue reading

The message in the non-message

Innovative graffiti is putting Argentina on the urban cultural map, according to Maximiliano Ruiz, the
author of a ground-breaking introduction to the country’s street art, in London for his book’s release.
He tells Gavin O’Toole why 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

Fantasies of a ghetto nerd

With hilarious banter, The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao challenges prejudices about purity of race, national identity and sexual definition Continue reading

Terra Estrangeira

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The Wandering Signifier

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Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire

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