Latin America is demanding respect. Grace Livingstone’s bruising book on US regional policy, America’s Backyard, explains why. Here she answers questions about Washington’s role in the darkest days of Latin American history Continue reading

Cracks in the monolith

Alicia Kennedy reads Zoetrope: All-Story’s Latin American issue and discovers that it breaks new ground in a bid to introduce readers to the region’s talent

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Terror’s celluloid legacy

Constanza Burucúa’s study of how Argentine film-makers grappled with the ‘Dirty War’ confirms cinema’s importance to democratic culture Continue reading

Bullets in Buenos Aires

It may have been an emotive work of anarchist propaganda about Argentina’s public enemy number one, but as an historical document The Buenos Aires Tragedy is a gem

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Brothers in arms

A comparison of two epic biopics about Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata made 50 years apart reveals how little Hollywood’s attitudes towards Mexico have changed Continue reading

The shared ambiguity of existence

Like all timeless texts, Juan José Saer’s The Witness contains a message about survival that has contemporary resonance Continue reading

Another modernity

José Martí is celebrated as the apostle of Cuban independence, but his work has been reexamined for what it can tell us about the US Continue reading

Up in smoke

Ricardo Piglia’s Brechtian Money to Burn asks pressing questions about the ambivalent nature of capitalism Continue reading

Año uña

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Brazil: A Century of Change

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Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas

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Open Veins of Latin America

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