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The article offers an analysis of the presence of Italian language and Italian culture in Latin American poetry, focusing on the books "Mi padre, el inmigrante" and "Épica mínima" by Venezuelan poets Vicente Gerbasi and Márgara Russotto respectively, and "Lotes baldíos" by Mexican poet Fabio Morábito. Subjects include the construction of national literatures, memory and heritage in the children of immigrants, and translation as a theme in Morábito.

The article reviews the book "Muhammad is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet," by David S. Powers.

The article reviews the book "Inherited Wealth," by Jens Beckert.

Highlights from the article: The book is divided into 15 chapters each describing different aspects of epigenetics, ranging from fundamental concepts in model plants to applications in plants of agronomic interest. Next, in chapter 11, authors concentrate on the current information on the new research field of epitranscriptomic in Arabidopsis and emphasize how RNA epigenetics may play crucial roles in plant development and acclimation. The new edition of the book Epigenetics in Plants of Agronomic Importance brings to the readers the up-to-the-minute fundamental knowledge of epigenetic processes and explicitly states their many interesting and promising applications in agronomically interesting crops.

Paul Vander Meer’s "Farm-Plot Dispersal: Lu-liao Village, Taiwan, 1967" discusses how social and family traditions, such as inheritance and dowry customs, affect land dispersal for members of the Taiwanese farming village of Luliao. [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]

This article reviews Sofia Holmlund's book on land transfers through inheritance in rural Uppland, Sweden. In “The Land We Inherited," she argues that this type of transference best reflected the wishes of the family. Holmlund's book is based on her doctoral dissertation at the University of Stockholm. [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]