A groundbreaking history of the Maya unifies a hitherto fragmented narrative. The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya, David Stuart, 2026, Princeton University Press
Categories: Central America
Mayan lessons for the world
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Tag: Ecology
Mutual kingdoms
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Nature’s cultural impact is best seen by breaking disciplinary boundaries. Review: Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production, Cristina E Pardo Porto and Oscar A Pérez (eds), 2025, University of Florida Press
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, South America
Green trailblazers
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Two books place Latin America in the vanguard of climate debates. Reviews: Contesting the Climate Unthinkable: Latin American Cultural Responses to a Warming World; and The Climate Trial: Law and Justice on a Melting Planet
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Europe, International, Middle East & North Africa, North America, South America
Green is the colour of blood
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A martyr speaks
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Murder cannot silence the truth about deforestation. How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist’s Deadly Quest for Answers, Dom Phillips and Contributors, 2025, Bonnier Books
Categories: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, South America, Venezuela
Extraction as alienation
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The rape of the Amazon has generated a unique cultural archive. The Environment in Brazilian Culture: Literature, Cinema, and the Arts, edited by Patricia Vieira, 2025, University of Florida Press
Categories: Brazil, Ecuador, South America
Slimy harbinger
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Is Latin American science fiction coming of age? Pink Slime, Fernanda Trías, translated by Heather Cleary, 2023, Scribe Publications
Categories: South America, Uruguay
Train to nowhere?
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Art against extraction
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The Latin American imagination is in the global forefront of ecological resistance. Momentum: Art and Ecology in Contemporary Latin America, edited by Inés Katzenstein, María del Carmen Carrión and Madeline Murphy Turner, 2024, Museum of Modern Art
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, North America, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela