The author of The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State (University of North Carolina Press, Fall 2010) talks about her work. Photograph by Steve Milligan
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Tag: Interviews
Mexico’s observant bird
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Nathanial Gardner talks Latamrob through Elena Poniatowska’s Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela, about the Russian exile and artist Angelina Beloff (pictured), and considers Poniatowska’s wider contribution to Mexican letters
Categories: Mexico, North America
Interpreting the menu
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The academic Nathanial Gardner has tasted the many flavours of the classic Mexican novel and film Como agua para chocolate, and explains why this best-selling work left audiences so satisfied
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
The dictatorship of gender
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Argentine novelist Cecilia Szperling – whose Natural Selection has just hit the shelves – would prefer it if readers did not know the gender of a writer
Categories: Argentina, South America
A conversation with Lars Schoultz
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Lars Schoultz is a noted academic and the author of That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution. Here he discusses the book and US policy towards Cuba. Photo: Dan Sears
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
Davi versus Goliath
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Davi Kopenawa Yanomami has a mission: to save his people from the ravages of mining and deforestation in the Amazon. He tells Georgina Jiménez why a world threatened by environmental vandalism must take note Photo: ©Joëlle Hernández/CAFOD
Categories: Uncategorized
Chopping and chewing: Q&A with Jennifer Mathews
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The author of Chicle: The Chewing Gum of the Americas, from the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley answers questions about gum use over the ages and the magnates who built fortunes upon it
Categories: Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, North America, United States
Dark age before the renaissance
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Latin America is demanding respect. Grace Livingstone’s bruising book on US regional policy, America’s Backyard, explains why. Here she answers questions about Washington’s role in the darkest days of Latin American history
Categories: North America, United States
Noir of many colours
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Leonardo Padura, Havana’s master of the novela negra, tells Gavin O’Toole about his new novel on the murder of Trotsky, freedom of speech in Cuba, and whether his inimitable creation, Mario Conde, will ever die
The message in the non-message
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Innovative graffiti is putting Argentina on the urban cultural map, according to Maximiliano Ruiz, the author of a ground-breaking introduction to the country’s street art, in London for his book’s release. He tells Gavin O’Toole why
Categories: Argentina, South America