The Amazon in Times of War (Review)
Marcos Colón’s book, grounded in the experiences of Indigenous communities, examines how the institutional violence of Jair Bolsonaro’s government resulted ...
A New No-Man’s-Land: Writing and Art at Guantánamo, Cuba (Review)
Esther Whitfield's book examines how art produced in Guantánamo transcends cultural and linguistic divides to find common ground, reimagining empathy ...
The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil (Review)
Through storytelling and analysis, Blanc’s book tells an interior history of Brazil by recounting the political initiatives and legacy of ...
Complicating Humanitarianism in a World Scarred by an Empire of Borders (Review)
Two recent books offer nuanced explanations behind the increased violence and militarization toward criminalized immigration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands ...
Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959-1991 (Review)
Yordanov’s new book fills a gap in the historiography of the Cuban Revolution by centering Cuba’s post-revolutionary relations with its ...
Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History (Review)
Paloma Duong's book explores Cuba's changing media landscape's effect on local and global perceptions of the country by analyzing popular ...
¿Quiénes Somos Todos? Libertad, igualdad y fraternidad en Cuba (Review)
Julio César Guanche's book offers a reinterpretation of Cuba’s enduring democratic-republican tradition, unearthing its popular and egalitarian historical roots ...
Paraguayan Sorrow: Writings of Rafael Barrett, a Radical Voice in a Dispossessed Land (Review)
Translated for the first time into English by William Costa, Rafael Barrett’s text, originally published in 1911, offers political and ...
