by Jon Lindsay Miles Manuel Mejía Vallejo’s El día señalado is one of some fifty novels published between 1951 and 1967 that took as their subject the civil unrest in Colombia known as “La violencia”. In his book-length study of the Colombian novel, La novela colombiana: Planetas y satélites (1978), Seymour Menton considers Mejía Vallejo’s […]

Ernesto González Barnert (Temuco, 1978) is the author of the anthology Equipaje ligero [Traveling light] (2017), as well as the poem collections Cul de sac (2016), Playlist (2015), Trabajos de luz sobre el agua [Works of light on water] (2015), Coto de caza [Hunting grounds] (2013), Arte tábano [Gadfly art] (2010) and Higiene [Hygiene] (2007). He was awarded the Premio Nacional del Consejo del Libro (2014), […]

These Trees Are Made of Blood, a political musical cabaret set in the 1970s during Argentina’s Dirty War, is coming to London’s Arcola Theatre (14 June – 15 July 2017). www.arcolatheatre.com/event/these-trees-are-made-of-blood/

Por María Estévez-Serrano. Festelón, el Festival de Teatro Español vuelve a Londres. Del 12 al 25 de Junio 2017. Ventana Latina habla con su directora, Mariví Rodríguez-Quiñones, un Don Quijote en femenino que incombustible lucha contra molinos de viento. Entre sus clases como profesora de español en el King´s College y Citylit, tutorías privadas, corrección de […]

Our modern world owes a lot to a product native to Amazonia: natural rubber. As well as its contribution to the automobile and aviation industries in the form of the tyre, natural rubber is employed in a range of other products: from hoses and industrial belts to gloves, syringes, telegraph cables and condoms. A history […]

Por Lucia Godinez Neruda no es un biopic, sino una invención informada por la biografía. La historia es concisa: en 1948, el escritor- político-izquierdista Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) junto a su mujer la aristócrata argentina Delia del Carril (Mercedes Morán) escapan de la persecución de un centenar de policías, liderados por el prefecto Oscar Peluchonneau […]

            En el inquietante libro de cuentos Antes del encuentro feroz (Alción Editora, 2016), de la escritora argentina Agustina María Bazterrica, “lo perverso y lo siniestro se complotan para contar la naturaleza humana con humor y agilidad”. Acá presentamos un fragmento del libro:   LOBO El lobo está inquieto detrás del […]

In her investigation A Hero’s Curse: The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela (UK: Hurst, April 2017, US: Oxford University Press, May 2017), the Swedish journalist Kajsa Norman tells the story of “the modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Simón Bolívar and his most passionate disciple, Comandante Hugo Chávez.” It is November 2013. A stray dog urinates on […]

From Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography By Andrew Grant Wood © Oxford University Press, 2014 The early association between Veracruz and Lara [began] in January 1929 when, while performing at the El Retiro, Maruca Pérez referred to Agustín as “the inspired Veracruz composer.” Further constructing this fictive identity, Lara began telling interviewers in the early 1930s that he […]

            Excerpt from The Worlds I Love, a novel by Cuban author Daína Chaviano, translated by Yolanda Molina-Gavilán It was the month of July and final examinations came along with it. During the breaks I turned myself to rest and clearing my mind as I went from one exam to the next. I […]

Por Concha García. Lucia Berlin (Alaska 1936 – Los Ángeles 2004) fue una escritora prácticamente desconocida hasta que en 2015 se publicó, a título póstumo, Manual para mujeres de la limpieza, siendo considerado por las principales revistas literarias como uno de los mejores libros del año. Y al igual que ha ocurrido con otros escritores […]

by Maria Helena P.T. Machado University of São Paulo From Brazil through the Eyes of William James: Letters, Diaries, and Drawings, 1865–1866 Translated by John M. Monteiro Harvard University Press, 2006 Republished with permission of the author A completely different perspective emerges in the letters and diaries written by William James during his journey in Brazil. […]