Traditional Nahua culture and belief have much to tell the modern world. Reviews: Flickering Creations: Concepts of Nahua Precious Art, Allison Caplan, 2026, Princeton UP; and The Bundle: Unwrapping Nahua Religious Traditions, Molly H Bassett, 2026, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
A rejection of the left’s inclusivity is fuelling the right-wing reaction. Review: The Far Right in Latin America, edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Carlos Meléndez, Talita Tanscheit and Lisa Zanotti, 2026, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Central America, South America
Decapitation structures a bold new take on cinematic theory. Review: The Visual Guillotine: The Cinematic Cut and Politics in Latin America, Thomas Matusiak, 2026, University of Minnesota Press
Afro-descendant Brazilians are in the front line of the battle for Nature. Review: The Earth Gives, the Earth Wants, Antônio Bispo dos Santos, translated by Alex Brostoff and Jamille Pinheiro Dias, 2026, Polity Press.
Categories: Brazil, South America
A black revolutionary’s exile in Cuba draws attention to unfinished business. Review: Fugitive States: The Life of Charlie Hill, a Black Radical Exile in Socialist Cuba, Teishan A Latner, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Cuba, United States
Migrant Mexican farmworkers can count punk rock among their contributions to the US. Review: Latinx Encounters: How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest, Juan Ignacio Mora, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Mexico, Puerto Rico, United States
Georgina Jiménez assesses how London’s Tate Modern is exploring ‘Fridamania’.
Frida: The Making of an Icon
Tate Modern, London
25 June until 3 January 2027
Categories: Mexico, United Kingdom
A London bookseller’s visionary homage to the Beat Generation reveals how Mexico nurtured a cultural revolution
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
All is not lost: Puerto Rico can be free. Review: Post-Disaster Futures: Ruin, Repair, and Decolonial Imagination in Puerto Rico, edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Isabel Guzzardo Tamargo, 2026, Haymarket Books
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, United States
A study of racial politics mounts a challenge to area studies. Review: Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico, Andrea Mendoza, 2026, Duke University Press
