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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
Sergio Chejfe at
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