Discover how Latin American landscape representations can reflect social & political concerns. Who is Mother Nature REALLY? In this episode of Crash Course Latin American Literature, we’ll uncover how ...

Discover the origins of Latin American horror in ghost towns, haunted inns, and eerie landscapes. Are you afraid of ghosts? In this episode of Crash Course Latin American Literature, we pull back the ...

There was a time not so long ago when Latin American literature, as it appeared on college syllabi, in critical discourse, and in writers' own spheres of influence, summoned up the whimsical and ...

How students at USC Aiken explore the histories and cultures of Latin America through its diverse literature was the topic of the free “Aiken in the Alley” lecture on March 20. The Spanish language is ...

Decades after the Latin American literature “boom,” which made magical realism the region’s distinctive hallmark, several of its most notable books are gaining new momentum in the 21st century through ...

Eating Ashes,” by Brenda Navarro, dispenses with familiar portrayals of mourning in a tale of migration, loss and memory.

Latin America raised me on books: at the feria, walking and holding my abuela's hand, and at my family's dining table, covered with cafecito stains and ashtrays. Stories weren't just entertainment; ...

LIMA, Peru — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89. He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated ...

Juan Pablo Dabove, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado Boulder, passed away on Jan. 21, 2025. He was 56. Dabove was an expert on postcolonial Latin American literature ...

Many of the world’s eyes this past week have been fixed on the Vatican and the leadup to Saturday’s papal funeral, an event that overshadowed most of the rest of the news cycle, at least in Catholic ...

Latin American literature in translation is continuing to find success, especially works by women writers. Charco Press is leading the charge. Monocle speaks with Carolina Orloff, its founder, about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, sits behind his books during ...