Book Reviews

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 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 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...

A Review of Legacy of Lies: El Salvador 1981-1984 During most of the 1980s I lived in Managua, Nicaragua, as a photojournalist for Newsweek magazine. I had covered the 1979 Sandinista Revolution that sent shockwaves through Washington because Nicaragua “lost” a...

A Review of The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned World Omar Torrijos, military dictator of Panama, may be one of the most understudied leaders in modern Latin American history. After seizing power in 1968, he reshaped the country’s...

A Review of A New No-Man’s Land: Writing and Art at Guantánamo, CubaGuantánamo/GTMO: Cuba’s easternmost province, occupied territory, U.S. military base, prison, refuge, natural habitat, torture site, symbol, legal exception and geographical reference of the famous...

A Review of Venezuela’s Collapse – The Long Story of How Things Fell ApartOn July 28, the Venezuelans will hopefully have the opportunity to elect a new president. Twenty-five years after President Hugo Chávez came to power, very few of them are said to freely support...

A Review of A Body of One’s Own: A Trans History of Argentina I received my copy of A Body of One’s Own just a few months into the chaotic Milei presidential administration in Argentina. This meant that I was reading Patricio Simonetto’s excellent book on trans and...