Review Magazine

Includes key texts featured in the Americas Society Literature Spring Program, including those by Argentine author Marcos Aguinis, Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar, Mexican-born author Ilan Stavans (interviewed by Gabriel Sanders of The Forward), Argentine writer Luisa Futoransky, Peruvian poet Isaac Goldemberg, filmmaker Isaac Artenstein, and leading scholar of Jewish Latin American literature Edna Aizenberg. The work of visual artists Guillermo Kuitca, José Gurvich, and Frans Krajcberg are also showcased in the issue.

Features essays, poetry and fiction by writers in the Americas Society’s “Mexico NOW” literature programs “Out of the Labyrinth: Mexican Literature Today” (Nov. 18) and “Bat at Noon:  Remembering Luis Ignacio Helguera” (Nov. 19), among them Homero Aridjis, Carmen Boullosa, Coral Bracho and Carlos Monsiváis.

In Memoriam: “John Coleman on Spectacle Lane,” by Belkis Cuza Malé; “Towards a Reading of Ortiz’s Cuban Counterpoint,” by Enrico Mario Santí; “Creolité: Power, Mimicry, and Dependence,” by A. James Arnold; “Paris Isn’t Always a City in Texas,” by Dany Laferrière; Interview with Raphaël Confiant; “Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat,” by Maryse Condé; “Cherries” and more.

Includes poetry and prose by Claribel Alegría, Manlio Argueta, Arturo Arias, Gioconda Belli, Ernesto Cardenal, Ana Istarú, Víctor Montejo, Roberto Quesada, and Sergio Ramírez; “Kidnapping Alaíde,” by Otto Raúl González; Interview with Pablo Antonio Cuadra; Texts by Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Ana Castillo, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Gustavo Pérez-Firmat, Achy Obejas, and Nelly Rosario; Art by Francisco Alvarado, Josefina Guilisasti, and Marco Maggi; Book reviews of new Canadian writing.

Includes prose by Tony Burgess, Christy Ann Conlin, Ian Ferrier, Madeline Monette, Hal Niedzvicki, Timothy Taylor; Play excerpts by François Archambault, Jean Marc Dalpé, Carole Fréchette, Marie Laberge, Larry Tremblay; Art by Louise Belcourt; "Miniatures," by Geneviéve Letarte; Special Feature: "The Parable of the Tapeworm," by Mario Vargas Llosa.