The ReVista book review section features reviews of recent books about Latin America, the Caribbean and the Latinx community in all disciplines.
Recent Reviews
A Review of The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis
A Review of The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis On March 19, 2010, two graduate students at the Tec de Monterrey, Jorge Antonio Mercado Alonso and Javier Francisco Arredondo Verdugo, were killed by members of the Mexican Army...
A Review of Repertoires of Terrorism: Organizational Identity and Violence in Colombia’s Civil War
A Review of Repertoires of Terrorism: Organizational Identity and Violence in Colombia's Civil WarViolence has always been a fundamental aspect of human life. We have fought to survive, to defend, and to acquire. States are meant to have a monopoly on the use of...
A Review of Mesquite Pods to Mescal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines
A Review of Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan CuisinesMexican culinary nationalists have enshrined Oaxaca as the “land of seven moles,” the diverse chile stews that provide an Indigenous counterpoint to the supposed cradle of creole gastronomy, Puebla,...
A Review of Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
A Review of Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics At a recent Harvard Petrie-Flom Center event, Law and Policy of Psychedelic Medicine, author Ayelet Waldman offered a nuanced perspective on microdosing and government policy. I asked her how we could...
A Review of From Peril to Partnership: US Security Assistance and the Bid to Stabilize Colombia and Mexico
A Review of From Peril to Partnership: US Security Assistance and the Bid to Stabilize Colombia and MexicoOxford University Press, in collaboration with The Council on Foreign Relations, published Paul J. Angelo’s much-anticipated monograph in March 2024. The book is...
A Review of Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
A Review of Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a CrisisJonathan Blitzer's well-written and evocative book, Everyone Who is Gone is Here, has been hailed as a must-read on the U.S. current immigration emergency. In my...
A Review of Divino e infame. Las identidades de Rubén Darío
A Review of Divino e infame. Las identidades de Rubén DaríoFresh insight into seemingly exhausted topics often comes from unexpected places. Luís Cláudio Villafañe’s biographical account of Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916), one of Latin America’s most...
A Review of Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature
A Review of Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World LiteratureWith this fascinating and theoretically sound study, Rosario Hubert has produced a key text not only in Asia-Latin American studies, but also in Latin American studies and...
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