Arts & Culture Archives - Americas Quarterly

In Valeria Luiselli’s New Novel, the Past Never Stays Behind

“Beginning, Middle, End” crosses Sicily and Mexico, memory and imagination, to dissolve all borders between them.

Simón Mesa Soto’s prize-winning black comedy exposes the gap between what artists claim to do for the poor and what they actually do.

Luis I. Jácome’s history of regional central banking makes the case for the most significant economic reform of our time.

A major exhibition in London shows how the Cuban artist’s work on ecology, exile, and the body anticipated conversations we are still having today.

Our music columnist writes about his personal connection to “El Indio” Solari, an iconic Argentine rock musician.

The filmmaker returned home to find the town he grew up in disappearing, even as its artists continue to build a legacy.

AQ’s music columnist traces the paths of a genre that thrived in Latin America, from its colonial courts and Jesuit missions to its revolutions.

A new book shows how Brazil’s biggest city often literally paved over its Black past.

A collaboration between The Met Opera and The Museum of Modern Art gives the famed Mexican artists a fresh treatment.

Dahlia de la Cerda’s latest book takes on what it means to be a woman living through Mexico’s security crisis.

Since first hosting the FIFA World Cup in 1970, the country has seen a remarkable transformation. This time, the challenge is security.

A new book explores how 16th-century commoners wielded the legal system against their colonizers to surprising effect.

A new documentary follows the mothers and daughters of Guaribas, Brazil’s pilot city for the famed Bolsa Família cash-transfer program.

From samba to soca and candombe, AQ’s music columnist traces Carnival season’s sounds across the hemisphere.

A new short story collection by Daniela Catrileo follows Mapuche youth through the cramped blocks and slow violence of Santiago.