Book Reviews

A Review of Live From America: How Latino TV Conquered the United States The story of Spanish-language television in the United States has all the elements of a Mexican telenovela with plenty of ruthless businessmen, dashing playboys, sexy women, behind-the-scenes...

A Review of The Power of the Invisible: A Memoir of Solidarity, Humanity, and Resilience Paula Moreno’s The Power of the Invisible is a memoir that operates simultaneously as personal testimony, political critique and ethical reflection on leadership. First published...

A Review of Negative Originals: Race and Early Photography in ColombiaNegative Originals: Race and Early Photography in Colombia is Juanita Solano Roa’s first book as sole author. An assistant professor at Bogotá’s Universidad de los Andes, she has been a leading...

A Review of Megaprojects in Central America: Local Narratives About Development and the Good Life  What does “development” really mean when the promise of progress comes with displacement, conflict and loss of control over one's own territory? Who defines what a...

A Review of Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro What happened to the exemplary democracy that characterized Venezuelan democracy from the late 1950s until the turn of the century?  Once, Venezuela stood as a model of...

A Review of Las Luchas por la Memoria: Contra las Violencias en México Over the past two decades, human rights activists have created multiple sites to mark the death and disappearance of thousands in Mexico’s ongoing “war on drugs.” On January 11, 2014, I observed...

A Review of A Promising Past: Remodeling Fictions in Parque Central, Caracas A beacon of modern urban transformation and a laboratory of social reproduction, Parque Central in Caracas is a monumental enclave of 20th-century Venezuelan oil-fueled progress. The...

A Review of Bodies Found in Various PlacesThis bilingual anthology of Elvira Hernández, translated by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher and published by Cardboard House Press, offers a comprehensive entry point into the work of the Chilean poet. The translators’...