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Film of the week / 7 May 2026
7 May 2026

LEO BOIX recommends a ravishing, full-bodied drama about the intensely demanding and emotional art of Kabuki theatre

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Letters from Latin America / 5 May 2026
5 May 2026

LEO BOIX reviews a novel where shadows deceive and mortality looms, and a poetry collection that refuses to dim

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Literature / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

Reviews of a compelling account of a tragedy that shook Chile in 2005, a poetry collection about home and belonging, and a bilingual poetry collection on migration, fire, and art, drawing on the work of Hieronymus Bosch

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Letters from Latin America / 31 March 2026
31 March 2026

A novel by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos, poetry by Mexican Ingrid Bringas, and a biography by Argentinian Mercedes Halfon

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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

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Letters from Latin America / 20 May 2025
20 May 2025

LEO BOIX introduces a bold novel by Mapuche writer Daniela Catrileo, a raw memoir from Cuban-Russian author Anna Lidia Vega Serova, and powerful poetry by Mexican Juana Adcock

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Letters from Latin America / 6 May 2025
6 May 2025

A novel by Argentinian Jorge Consiglio, a personal dictionary by Uruguayan Ida Vitale, and poetry by Mexican Homero Aridjis

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