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CultureAugust 30, 2011
Double Vantage: On Jorge Castañeda
In Mañana Forever? Jorge Castañeda chronicles the growth of the middle class to argue that Mexico is not a failed state.
Natasha Wimmer
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CultureApril 21, 2011
The Cursi Affair: On Manuel Puig
The Latin Boom writers failed to appreciate the work of fellow novelist Manuel Puig, who wrote about housewives and homosexuals.
Natasha Wimmer
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Drug War and Drug PolicyOctober 27, 2010
The Impasse: On Martin Solares
The Black Minutes, a nuanced neo-noir, conveys how narco-violence has leached the Mexican justice system of meaning.
Natasha Wimmer
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FictionNovember 24, 2009
Novelist From Another Planet: On Horacio Castellanos Moya
Horacio Castellanos Moya has turned anxiety into an art form and put El Salvador on the literary map.
Natasha Wimmer
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FictionSeptember 16, 2009
A Domestic Existentialist: On Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda's fiction plumbs a sadness borne of helplessness, an almost voluptuous vulnerability.
Natasha Wimmer
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FictionMay 20, 2009
Puttin' on the Glitz: José Manuel Prieto's Rex
Set in the glossiest of sanctuaries, Rex is a complicated and dazzling indictment of contemporary fiction.
Natasha Wimmer
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FictionOctober 8, 2008
Credenzas of Fragmentation: Lobo Antunes's Decadent Despair
In António Lobo Antunes's new novel, a lost boy despairs of finding a real family in the wasteland of his past.
Natasha Wimmer