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Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish Culture. Susana Chavez-Silverman, Librada Hernandez, eds. Robert Richmond Ellis, intro. Madison. University of Wisconsin Press. 2000. viii [...]

The Fat Man from La Paz: Contemporary Fiction from Bolivia. Rosario Santos, ed. Javier Sanjines, intro. New York. Seven Stories. 2000. 315 pages. $16.95 (paper). ISBN 1-58322-03005 (032-1 paper). TRANSLATION, [...]

Guadalupe Cortina. Invenciones multitudinarias: Escritoras judiomexicanas contemporaneas. Newark, Delaware. Juan de la Cuesta. 2000. 160 pages. $15.95. ISBN 0-936388-90-0. Guadalupe Cortina's study of Mexican can Jewish women writers features general [...]

Fiction Angelina Muniz-Huberman. El mercader de Tudela. Mexico City. Fondo de Cultura Economica. 1998. 309 pages. ISBN 968-16-5357-2. A talent for making all of Sephardic culture and history appear mysteriously [...]

A short-story writer known principally for his portraits of alienated immigrants who cannot manage to fit in, Samuel Rawet (b. 1929 near Warsaw, d. 1984 in Brazil) has been winning [...]

Tatiana Lobo. Assault on Paradise. Asa Zatz, tr. Willimantic, Ct. Curbstone. 1998. 297 pages. $15.95. ISBN 1-880684-46-2. Although Chilean-born, Tatiana Lobo has long resided in Costa Rica. Her novel Assault [...]

After starting out as part of the 1940s generation of Uruguayan lyric poets that included Idea Vilarino and Mario Benedetti, Ida Vitale (b. 1924) has in recent years had an [...]

Bolivian-born Edmundo Paz Soldan (b. 1967), currently a faculty member at Cornell University, has demonstrated a talent for attracting the attention of the literary public. Along with the Chilean Alberto [...]

Edith Grossman, tr., with the author. Durham, North Carolina. Duke University Press. 2002. xii + 159 pages. $45.95 ($15.95 paper). ISBN 0-8223-2951-4 (2987-5 paper) THE CHILEAN MILITARY REGIME that began [...]