Literature Series

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.

Writer Mark Abley, author of the acclaimed Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Language, speaks at the launch of Review 76: Contemporary Canadian Writing and Arts.

Review 76 focuses on currents in contemporary writing from throughout Canada, including literature in English and French and aboriginal and immigrant literatures; the selections presented in the issue provide a glimpse of the multicultural and multi-generational face of Canadian writing today.

Review 75 opens with a section of scholarly articles developed by Guest Academic Editor Raúl Antelo on a range of topics relating to Argentine writing and humanities, such as the decade of the seventies in Argentine literature and the influence of the pampa on Argentine identity.

This issue showcases selections of fiction, poetry, creative essays and images by writers and artists from the Caribbean and its diaspora.

This issue juxtaposes rediscovered iconoclasts, such as 19th century poet Sousândrade; Brazilian Modernist Pagu; and Nise da Silveira, the creator of the first art therapy workshop in Rio, with contemporary cultural figures such as vital artist Paula Trope and performance artist Márcia X.

Review 72 is devoted to the rich and riveting history of the cultural and economic exchanges between Asia and Latin America. It explores a number of New World traditions that flourished through five centuries of cultural interplay among the artists, writers, musicians, merchants, explorers, and visionaries of both regions.