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
The month of August is Women in Translation Month: an initiative created in 2014 by book blogger Meytal Radzinski to celebrate translated fiction written by women. Translated literature accounted for 5.63% of literature published in English in 2019,... Read Article
1. When relatives visited my home city of Cali during the ’80s and ’90s, my father would take them on the Magical Tour. These were the peak years of the city’s infamous drug cartel, an organization that came... Read Article
Street art has always represented an integral aspect of creative expression in Latin America, as is the case in many other parts of the world. Their capacity to convey ideas and messages in public arenas, and to showcase... Read Article
There has been something of a rise in recent times of novels that fall under the ‘faction’ category. The name refers to those books that take real-life people and events but interpret them, with no small degree of... Read Article
Does Gilles Peterson sleep? I’m not sure. For, as well as hosting a radio show, running a record label, producing Havana Cultura, DJing around the world and presumably actually listening to music at some point, he has now... Read Article
