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Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas is a forum for contemporary Latin American, Caribbean, and Canadian literature and arts. Published by the Americas Society in association with Taylor and Francis Ltd., the journal has a total readership of 10,000. Subscribe to Review.
Review 77 features a section of research articles by leading scholars on aspects of immigration and culture and a creative section showcasing selections of poetry, fiction, creative essays, and interviews by and about writers including Jorge Aguilar Mora, Gioconda Belli, Enrique Fierro, José Kozer, Eduardo Mitre, Sylvia Molloy, Ricardo Piglia, and Ida Vitale.
Includes works by Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, and Joaquín Torres-García; essays and fiction by Lisa Block de Behar, Camen Boullosa, Gabriel García Márquez and Liliana Heker; poetry by Tomás Harris, a piece by Alfredo Bryce Echenique, interviews with artists Graciela Sacco and Graciela Hasper; and film and book reviews.
Includes essays by Gregory Rabassa and K. David Jackson; poetry by Décio Pignatari; short stories by Machado de Assis, Rubem Fonseca, and Marcos Rey; a conversation with Lygia Pape and Paulo Herkenhoff; interviews with contemporary visual artists; essays on music and film; and book reviews.
Includes interviews with composer Tania Léon and novelist Oscar Hijuelos; Essays on Borges with the Tango, Julio Cortázar and Music, Afro-Cuban music and writing, and Flamenco; Fiction by César Aira and Denise Chávez; Profiles of four Canadian visual artists; Music, exhibition, film, book reviews; Remembering Germán Arciniégas, Herberto Padilla and Susan Rotker.
The Universal Dimension of Latino Theatre , with René Buch, Miriam Colón-Valle, Maria Irene Fornes. Play excerpts by Migdalia Cruz and Nilo Cruz. "The Serfs" and "A Fotoflash," by Virgilio Piñera. Excerpts from Elena Poniatowska's Here's to You, Jesua! and Mario Vargas Llosa's Goatfest. Rediscovering the Unspoken Country, with Luis Argueta. Gloria Contreras and the Raller Coreográfico Dance Company. Art by Fernando Arias, Regina Galindo, Miguel Rothschild, and Rafael Sánchez, plus Music and Book Reviews.
Mario Vargas Llosa and José Miguel Oviedo: A Conversation. Fiction by Guillermo Carera Infante. "The Boom: A View from Havana," by Antonio Benitez-Rojo. Film Criticism by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. Essays by Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Jose Donoso, and Carlos Fuentes. "Erotic Cockroaches," by Manuel Puig. Art by Marisol, César Paternosto, Antonio Segui, and Miguel Angel Vidal. Music Review: "Survivors of the '60's".
"The Lost Book of Jorge Luis Borges," by Mempo Giardinelli. Fiction by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith and Edgardo Vega Yunqué (Ed Vega). Poetry by Sandra Alcosser, Raúl Barrientos, Marilyn Hacker, Elizabeth Hellman, Pedro Lopez Adorno, José Luis Rivas, and Quincy Troupe. Art by Teresita Fernández, Maruch Sántiz Gómez, and Janaina Tschäpe. Into the Mix: Contemporary Latin American Music. Review of "Gerardo Suter: Labyrith of Memory" exhibition.
"Rubén Dario at the Four Cats," by Alexander Coleman. Essays by Rubén Dario and Max Aub. Fiction by Enrique Vila-Matas. Poetry by Angel González, Ana María Fagundo, Pere Gimferrer. Art by Sergio Vega, José Gabriel Fernández, Cecilia Vicuña, José Alejandro Restrepo. "El Alma del Pueblo: Spanish Folk Art and its Transformation in the Americas". "Between Spain and Latin America: Some Music Paths". Latin American Literature and Soviet Readers.
Introductory essay by A. James Arnold. Fiction by Jacques Stephen Alexis, Maryse Condé, and Dany Laferriére. Essays by Patrick Chamoiseau and Edouard Glissant. Poetry by Anthony Phelps and Saint-John Perse. Art by Thierry Alet, Marc Latamie, and Christian Michel. French-Caribbean Music: An Introduction. Book Reviews.
"Peru Today, But Above All Peru Tomorrow," by Julio Ortega. Fiction by Fernando Ampuero, Isaac Goldemberg, Gregorio Martinez, Julio Ortega. Poetry by Eduardo Chirinos, Mariela Dreyfus, Pablo Guevara, José Antnio Mazzoti, Carmen Ollé, Giovana Pollarolo, Blanca Varela. Art by Javier Silva Meinel, Mariella Agois, Carlos Runcie Tanaka.
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