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Reviews in December 2009
LatAmRoB, Volume 3, Number 12
The straitjacket of Borges
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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
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Murder, they wrote
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Guillermo Martínez may be a clever, calculating author at the top of his game – but he is no Borges
Happy hypocrisy
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Stories by Carlos Fuentes about the great Mexican family can help us unpick the fiction of unity behind this national institution
Interpreting the menu
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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
Taste of success
Nathanial Gardner’s pithy and succinct critical examination of Como agua para chocolate provides fascinating insights into the classic book and film Continue reading
Morally unfit
The Fall of Fujimori was acclaimed for providing an intimate portrait of the exiled Peruvian leader - but ducked the vexing question of US support for him Continue reading
Perfect pitch
Matt de la Peña’s angst-ridden journey into the
world of Californian chicanos hits the youth market with precision Continue reading
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