Latin America

Democratic Detective

The novels of Paco Taibo Ignacio II reveal the raw sewage of Mexican politics — and a labyrinth of solidarity hidden beneath it.

  • Scott Sherman

Journey to Macondo in Search of García Márquez

An interview with the Colombian novelist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  • Gene Bell-Villada
  • Gabriel García Márquez

Guide to the Latin American Boom

The writers engaged in a transfiguration of Latin American reality, from localism to a kind of heightened, imaginative view of what is real.

  • Alexander Coleman
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