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
A Chilean artist shaped by the nightmare of Pinochet subverts colonial time. Review: Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished, Florencia San Martín, 2026, Duke University Press
Categories: Chile
El Salvador reveals the failure of a dominant idea. Review: Indignant Liberalism: Political Protest and Generational Change in El Salvador, Ellen Moodie, 2026, University of Texas Press
Categories: Central America, El Salvador
Authoritarian populism in Brazil is both new—and old. Review: The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil, edited by Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos and Katerina Hatzikidi, 2025, UCL Press
Categories: Brazil, South America
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
Music was a tool of survival for victims of Chile’s dictatorship. Review: Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile, Katia Chornik, 2025, Oxford University Press
Categories: Chile
Brazil’s role in Pinochet’s coup has disturbing modern echoes. Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and The South American Cold War, Mila Burns, 2025, University Of North Carolina Press
Categories: Brazil, Chile, North America, South America, United States
Llana Barber explores a history of uprisings in the US against a backdrop of systemic racism, reminding us as we observe Los Angeles that the weak never suffer in silence
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Puerto Rico, South America, United States
