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Literature / 13 March 2026
13 March 2026

A dazzling novel, and autobiographical fiction, by Mexicans Brenda Navarro and Cristina Rivera Garza, and poetry by Brazilian Ricardo Domeneck

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Exhibition Review / 27 February 2026
27 February 2026

LEO BOIX reviews a dazzling art exhibition by one of Latin America’s most important and rebellious artists, whose art exposes the way state violence operates not only through physical force, but through culture

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Letters from Latin America / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026

The debut novel by Uruguayan Eugenia Ladra, and poetry by Gerardo Diego

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Best of 2025 / 22 December 2025
22 December 2025

From feminist manifestos to exiled lovers to mythic islands, LEO BOIX selects the best fiction, poetry and non-fiction

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Film of the week / 11 December 2025
11 December 2025

LEO BOIX recommends the vivid story of a Brazilian hustler, reminding us that survival is rarely a solo act

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Literature / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025

A mesmerising novel by Mexican Daniel Saldana Paris, and fierce poetry by Peruvian Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod, and Jonathan Gonzalez

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Books / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025

Essays on contemporary Latin American feminism, a poetry debut by a queer Texan of Mexican heritage, and a lush volume of tango and milonga drawings

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Letters from Latin America / 23 September 2025
23 September 2025

A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin

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Letters from Latin America / 19 August 2025
19 August 2025

LEO BOIX reviews a novella by Brazilian Ana Paula Maia, and poetry by Peruvian Giancarlo Huapaya, and Chilean Elvira Hernandez

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Letters from Latin America / 22 July 2025
22 July 2025

LEO BOIX reviews a caustic novel of resistance and womanhood by Buenos Aires-born Lucia Lijtmaer, and an electrifying poetry collection by Chilean Vicente Huidobro

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Exhibition review / 19 June 2025
19 June 2025

LEO BOIX salutes the revelation that British art has always had a queer pulse, long before the term became cultural currency

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Books / 3 June 2025
3 June 2025

Novels by Cuban Carlos Manuel Alvarez and Argentinean Andres Tacsir, a political novella in verse by Uruguayan Mario Benedetti, and a trilogy of poetry books by Mexican cult poet Bruno Dario