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Letters from Latin America / 7 April 2025
7 April 2025
Travelogue/reportage by Argentinean Maria Sonia Cristoff, and poetry by Peruvian Gaston Fernandez and Puerto Rican Cristina Perez Diaz
Letters from Latin America / 4 March 2025
4 March 2025
A pamphlet by British Latinx poet Patrick Romero McCafferty, poetry by Anglo-Argentinian  Miguel Cullen, and a book of conjuring poems by Mexican Pedro Serrano
Best of 2024: Letters from Latin America / 6 December 2024
6 December 2024
LEO BOIX selects the best books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction written by Latinx and Latin American authors published this year
Letters from Latin America / 14 October 2024
14 October 2024
Mexican Yuri Herrera’s novel about Benito Juarez in New Orleans, and poetry by Mexican Fabio Morabito and Argentine Sergio Chejfec
Literature / 4 June 2024
4 June 2024
Femicide and the search for justice in Mexico: a book by Cristina Rivera Garza; and a travel book through Latin America by Welsh poet Richard Gwyn
Soufiane Ababri Bedwork, 2023 (L to R) Men in the sun; La Re
Exhibition review / 23 April 2024
23 April 2024
LEO BOIX recommends a refreshing, non-Western and subversive look at what it means to be LGBTQI+ in Morocco
Book Reviews / 15 April 2024
15 April 2024
Magic realism by Brazilian Itamar Vieira Junior, nonfiction by Peruvian Gabriela Wiener, and poetry by Chilean Vicente Huidobro and Zapotec poet Victor Teran
Literature / 12 March 2024
12 March 2024
A lush and watery fishing trip, besting the Devil, and the coming-of-age of a queer Afro-Panamanian: reviews of the Argentinian Selva Almada, the Venezuelan Alberto Arvelo Torrealba and the Panamanian Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Culture / 20 February 2024
20 February 2024
The human cost of Brazilian racism, the massacre of peasants in Columbia, and transgender transformations of language: reviews of a novel by Brazilian author Jeferson Tenorio and poetry by Brazilian Eliana Hernandez-Pachon and Venezuelan Isadoro Saturno
(Left) Margarita Garcia Robayo
Culture / 19 September 2023
19 September 2023
Reviews of a book of fiction by Colombian writer Margarita Garcia Robayo, a nouvelle by Argentinean author Sara Gallardo and a poetry collection by Argentinean-Spanish poet, novelist and musician Mariano Peyrou
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Literature / 8 August 2023
8 August 2023
Reviews of Fresh Dirt From the Grave by Bolivian Giovanna Rivero, Forgotten Manuscript by Argentinian Sergio Chejfec, and Adjacent Islands by Puerto Rican Nicole Cecilia Delgado
Literature / 1 May 2023
1 May 2023
LEO BOIX reviews a novella by Peruvian writer August Higa Oshiro, a powerful book by young Colombian author Lorena Salazar Masso, and three poetry pamphlets, by Puerto Rican Sabrina Ramos Ruben, Venezuelan Eleonora Requena and Brazilian Tatiana Nascimento
Immigrant child attempt to cross into US near Brownsville, T
Books / 14 March 2023
14 March 2023
LEO BOIX reviews a gripping memoir by Salvadorian American poet and activist Javier Zamora
Book Reviews / 4 December 2022
4 December 2022
LEO BOIX reviews of Temporary Archives: Poems by Women of Latin America, Ten Planets by Mexican Yuri Herrera, Voyager, Constellations of Memory by Chilean Nona Fernandez
Culture / 28 August 2022
28 August 2022
LEO BOIX reviews poetry by Salvadoran-American Alexandra Lytton Regalado and fiction by Mexican Ave Barrera and Argentinean Sylvia Molloy
Books / 28 July 2022
28 July 2022
LEO BOIX reviews fiction by Argentinian Ariana Harwicz and Colombian Cristina Bendek, and poetry collections by Bolivian Rocio Agreda Pierola and Anglo-Argentine Miguel Cullen
Book reviews / 21 July 2022
21 July 2022
New titles from across the continent: fiction by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos and Peruvian Katya Adaui and poetry collections by Chilean Veronica Zondek, Peruvian Julia Wong Kcomt and Mexican Adriana Diaz Enciso
Culture / 29 April 2022
29 April 2022
Leo Boix reviews a book of non-fiction by Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zeran and a novel by Brazilian Paulo Scott
Books Review / 11 February 2022
11 February 2022
Reviews of fiction by Nona Fernandez, short stories by Caio Fernando Abreu and poetry by Martin Rangel
A 1910 postcard of the New Synagogue in Cestochowa blown up
Books Review / 3 November 2021
3 November 2021
Reviews of poetry collections by Maia Elsner and Andres N Ordorica
(L to R) Ida Vitale and Fernanda Trias
Literature / 27 August 2021
27 August 2021
Review of fiction by Uruguayan writers Ida Vitale and Fernanda Trias
Book Review / 16 August 2021
16 August 2021
Unsettling sci-fi graphic novel on the transitoriness of life
UNIQUE: Susana Thenon
LITERATURE / 5 April 2021
5 April 2021
Review of fiction by Brazilian Julian Fuks and poetry from Argentinean Susana Thenon and British Latinx Marina Sanchez
Salvadoran poet and educator Janel Pineda
LITERATURE / 14 March 2021
14 March 2021
Reviews of fiction by Argentinean Natalia Casali, poetry by Salvadoran-American Janel Pineda and Colombian Maria Paz Guerrero and an essay by Puerto Rican Nicole Cecilia Delgado