Latin American Literature

Coelho's novel entices the mind's soul, and captivates the mind's eye.

Nov 14, 2009 - Ingrid Calderon

A story about a taboo subject and the mingling of love, give this masterpiece a life all its own.

Oct 22, 2009 - Ingrid Calderon

Brazilian master storyteller Paulo Coelho transforms the idea of Love and forgiveness into a tale of self discovery and the taming of an angry heart.

Sep 23, 2009 - Ingrid Calderon

Worldwide acclaimed author Paulo Coelho leads us through a forgotten community that is faced with a proposition they should resist.

Sep 12, 2009 - Ingrid Calderon

A contemporary all encompassing story that leads us through an inner and outer encounter with our worst enemy, ourselves.

Aug 22, 2009 - Ingrid Calderon

A novel with a supernatural spin, allowing love, mysticism and the search for answers to blend and co-exist in the same story.

Aug 19, 2009 - Ingrid Calderon

In a novel that could be retitled Feast of a Ghost, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the stories of people who were involved in the assassination of Dominica's Dictator Trujillo.

Jun 11, 2009 - Michael Mackey

An beautifully written book that doesn't so much tell a story as describe a state of mind even if it isn't the one the blurb claims it is describing.

Jun 9, 2009 - Michael Mackey

Age meets youth and is reborn in love in Marquez's inventive tale.

Apr 16, 2009 - Linda Ashar

Diaz has done it again in his epic novel about an immigrant family.

Mar 28, 2009 - My Nguyen

Evelio Rosero has collected several prestigious literary awards across Latin America. The Armies tackles the theme of Colombian civil conflict from a human perspective.

Feb 14, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Latin America's first great poet, the seventeenth-century nun, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, has attained the iconic force of a Frida Kahlo. Her work still resonates today.

Feb 13, 2009 - Jeanne Lombardo

Brazilian author Paulo Coelho introduces us to a boy's mystic journey across plains and deserts as he searches for his one worldly treasure.

Jan 16, 2009 - Jonathan Burns

The Moths and Other Stories takes readers on a journey through the lives of women of various ages in Chicano culture and how tradition collides with modern life.

Jul 24, 2008 - Cicely A. Richard

Junot Diaz, a Dominican American author, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his first novel. The immigrant experience is central to his work. He teaches writing at MIT.

Jul 19, 2008 - Christine Welter

"Cumandá: The Novel of the Ecuadorian Jungle" also goes by the name of "Drama Among Savages" and was first published in 1879.

Jul 5, 2008 - Barbara Stewart

Esquivel reinterprets the legendary and tragic love affair between Malinche and Hernán Cortés in the lyrical prose that made Like Water for Chocolate a top-selling novel.

Apr 20, 2008 - Christine Welter

An essay by James Grimmelmann remarks on the similarities between the Internet and The Library of Babel, but there are many things to be done to make that comparison apt.

Mar 31, 2008 - Robert O'Connor

Take a new look at an old source. Consider the marvelously real as portrayed in the Old Testament- particularly in I Samuel with the soon to be deposed King Saul.

May 2, 2007 - Barbara Steinhauser

Poetic technique shocks readers into awareness of Other realities. Several literary tactics explored in this article.

Apr 26, 2007 - Barbara Steinhauser

This week Cartagena's streets are packed with artists, musicians and writers all here participating in and attending the IV Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Espanola

Mar 27, 2007 - Richard McColl