Arts & Culture Archives - Americas Quarterly

A Journalist’s Last Dispatch from the Amazon

“How to Save the Amazon” confronts the complexity of the rainforest crisis—and still manages to inspire.

A riveting new documentary connects the Stroessner regime to broader forces beyond Paraguay’s borders.

AQ’s music columnist spent a week exploring Bogotá’s Festival Internacional de Música Clásica and the city’s vibrant music scene.

Daniel Saldaña París reconstructs a centuries-old tale for this age of wildfires and pandemics.

New York’s famed museum reintroduces its Americas collection with a fresh, future-facing vision.

Adriana Varejão brings Amazonian folklore and colonial critique to Manhattan.

A real-life Spanish nun turned conquistador is the focus of a new novel by an Argentine writer.

A new documentary looks back at the remarkable cinema that came out of the island’s midcentury moment of optimism.

AQ’s music columnist visits La Serena Festival de la Canción, put on by the Oscar-winning Drexler family.

The 1920s movement is winning fans abroad, even as its legacy is embattled at home.

The late pontiff’s autobiography provides a rare window into the inner and outer life of a beloved and complicated man.

“Buena Vista Social Club” puts Latin America on the musical theater map.

On February 26, 2025, AQ hosted a book event with Marie Arana in New York.

The pioneering street photographer documented 1970s São Paulo with gritty realism, humorous juxtapositions, and deep affection.

A new book shows how countries that have an institutionalized party system can weather crises more easily than those that don’t.