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
Mexican and Cuban stories translated by Langston Hughes make a radical debut. Review: Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston Hughes, ed. Ricardo A Wilson, 2026, Princeton University Press
Categories: Cuba, Mexico, United States
Antonio Dias was the most famous Brazilian pop artist that never was. Review: Borderless Painting as Borderless Art: Antonio Dias between Brazil and Europe, Sérgio B Martins, 2026, University of California Press
A new novel traces the lives of the Aztec emperor’s forgotten daughters. Review: The Other Moctezuma Girls, Sofia Robleda, 2026, Amazon Crossing
Categories: Mexico
Latin America’s need to remember a darker past is influencing literature. Review: Exemplary Humans, Juliana Leite, translated by Zoë Perry, 2026, Two Lines Press
Categories: Brazil
A Peruvian graphic novel grapples with a collapsing world. Books in brief: Before We Sail, Carlos Yacolca et al. Review: Before We Sail, Carlos Yacolca, Michelle Lino, Diego Revello, David Escobedo and David Lloys, 2026, Aces Weekly
Categories: Peru
Mexico’s ‘barefoot doctors’ became a means of indigenous integration. Review: The Power to Harm and Heal: Intercultural Medicine in Modern Mexico, Joshua Mentanko, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Mexico
Racialised border control has its origins in US efforts to prevent animal diseases. Review: Deadly Divide: How Insects, Pathogens, and People Defied the US-Mexico Border, Mary E Mendoza, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Mexico, United States
