On November 15, 2012, the Argentinean parliament passed a new law inscribing femicidios (femicides) into the penal code, deeming them to be aggravated homicides which could, given certain conditions, punish the perpetrator with life in prison. Selva Almada’s... Read Article
There is an age-old nature vs. nurture debate, but Laura Restrepo’s The Divine Boys makes a persuasive case to scrutinise another factor: the environment created by toxic masculinity. Set in Bógota (with a breezy vacation to Atolaima), the... Read Article
Award-winning author María Fernanda Ampuero, leader of a new wave of Ecuadorian writers according to The New York Times en Español, bites again with her first collection of short stories, Cockfight. Not for the faint-hearted, this is a... Read Article
During normal summers, the Edinburgh International Book Festival hosts nearly 1,000 writers, artists, philosophers, and more for three bustling weeks of cultural events. With summer 2020 categorically not being a normal summer, the festival has had to take... Read Article
