Category: Costa Rica

All about context

Stephen Hart’s companion to Latin American literature explains the historical background to literary production as well as what it says

Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

América: what’s in a word?

John Charles Chasteen’s latest historical epic raises serious questions about one country’s monopoly over the word ‘American’

Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Paradise postponed

Costa Rica is shaking off its image as a paradise of stability where there is nothing to write about, argues journalist and author Óscar Núñez Olivas, who recently launched his latest novel Cadence of the Moon, (originally published in Spanish as En clave de luna). A new generation of Costa Rican writers – and publishers…

Categories: Central America, Costa Rica

Ripped off

Ripped & Torn explores how Levi’s tries to convince Latin America’s fashion-hungry youth they need jeans, despite their shallow pockets

Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela