Current Issue: Review 86 (Spring 2013), focuses on iconic and emerging writers in Latin America. Guest edited by Carmen Boullosa and Jorge Volpi, Review 86 features academic essays on author Mario Vargas Llosa and other contemporary writers, and on topics including women’s literature and narco-literature. It showcases texts by iconic, established, and emerging writers throughout the hemisphere including Andréa del Fuego (Brazil), Diamela Eltit (Chile), Francisco Font Acevedo (Puerto Rico), Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua), Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico), Ulises Juárez (Nicaragua), Nélida Piñon (Brazil), Sergio Ramírez (Nicaragua), and Ignacio Uranga (Argentina). The issue also includes arts and music pieces, and reviews of new titles by Jorge Amado, Ernesto Cardenal, Junot Díaz, José Donoso, Clarice Lispector, and others.

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About Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas

Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas serves as a forum for contemporary Latin American, Caribbean, and Canadian literature and arts. The magazine, published by the Americas Society in association with Taylor and Francis Ltd., has a total estimated readership (print and online) of 10,000.

Review first brought the work of Latin American writers Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa to critical attention in the United States. Special issues have explored the oeuvres of literary icons Jorge Luis Borges, Machado de Assis, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz, as well as themes including women's writing, borders, urban voices, and performing arts.

The magazine has featured the work of major translators such as Edith Grossman, Helen Lane, Suzanne Jill Levine, Alfred MacAdam (the journal's editor for many years), Alastair Reid, and Margaret Sayers Peden. Current advisory board members for the magazine include Gregory Rabassa, translator of García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude; Cuban American writer Gustavo Pérez Firmat; and Brazilian novelist Nélida Piñon.

Review received the 1993 Phoenix Award for Outstanding Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, an American Magazine Award and numerous first-prize design awards from the Association of American Museums, most recently in 2003, for issues 65 and 66.

Submissions are generally by invitation from the editors. All submitted research articles are peer-reviewed. For further information, writers and scholars should send an inquiry letter to the editor, Daniel Shapiro, at dshapiro@as-coa.org.