Book Reviews

A Review of Central America in the Crosshairs of War; on the Road from Vietnam to IraqScott Wallace’s Central America in the Crosshairs of War; on the Road from Vietnam to Iraq is really several books at once that cohere into a magnificent whole.  It is the evocative,...

A Review of Brazilian Socio-Economic Dynamics: Contexts and Contemporary Realities. Contributions to EconomicsGilmar Masiero’s Brazilian Socioeconomic Dynamics arrives at a critical juncture in the intellectual conversation about Brazil. In an era in which...

A Review of La mirada imperial puesta en Galápagos La mirada imperial puesta en Galápagos (The Imperial Gaze on the Galapagos), a collection of essays edited by Alberto Acosta, Elizabeth Bravo, Esperanza Martínez and Ramiro Ávila, brings together critical perspectives...

A Review of How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist's Fatal Quest for Answers Dom Phillips, 57, was writing an environmentally significant book when he was brutally killed with Bruno Pereira in the Amazon on June 5, 2022. The crime that shocked the world interrupted...

A Review of Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States As something of an old hand in the history of coffee enterprise, I don't very often discover a new work that so effectively answers questions I've had for decades. Michelle Craig McDonald...

A Review of Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now When I was in undergrad at Emerson College, I met a student from Croatia who spoke to me in perfect Spanish. When I asked her how she was so fluent, she predictably told me she'd studied it...

A Review of The Years of Blood: Stories of a a Reporting Life in Latin America If you regularly read ReVista, you’ve probably read Alma Guillermoprieto.  Her new book, The Years of Blood, offers, as its subtitle suggests, “stories from a reporting life in Latin...

A Review of Chile in Their Hearts: The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing After the Coup It was 1972, and three young men—one accompanied by his wife— arrived separately in Chile from different points in the U.S. Upper Midwest. None had ever been to the...