Traditional Nahua culture and belief have much to tell the modern world. Reviews: Flickering Creations: Concepts of Nahua Precious Art, Allison Caplan, 2026, Princeton UP; and The Bundle: Unwrapping Nahua Religious Traditions, Molly H Bassett, 2026, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Decapitation structures a bold new take on cinematic theory. Review: The Visual Guillotine: The Cinematic Cut and Politics in Latin America, Thomas Matusiak, 2026, University of Minnesota Press
The history of US academics involved in espionage highlights a modern risk. Review: Scientists or Spies? The American Museum of Natural History in World War I Latin America, Roberta Marx Delson, 2026, Springer
Categories: Central America, Mexico, South America, United States
Political turmoil in Bolivia hints at a paradigm shift. Review: Bolivia and the Making of the Global Indigenous Movement: Anthropology, Development and Transnationalism, Juanita Roca-Sánchez, 2025, Routledge
Categories: Bolivia
An underclass of young Mexican American men is trapped by systemic exclusion. Review: Homeboys Forever: The Lifetime Consequences of Gang Membership, Avelardo Valdez, 2026, University of Chicago Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Art is a way of confronting institutional obstacles to decolonisation. Unmaking to Make: Art as decolonising practice in Latin America’s future, past and present, edited by Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, María Iñigo Clavo, Beatriz Lemos and Florencia Portocarrero, 2026, UCL Press
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Europe, International, North America, South America
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
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
Settler colonialism oppresses every aspect of Mapuche life—including sound. Review: Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference, Luis E Cárcamo-Huechante, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Chile
The humble grasshopper can tell us much about labour. Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them, Jeffrey H Cohen, 2025, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
