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Can­ción
Eduardo Halfon; Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn, trans. 
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Non­fic­tion
The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlike­ly Jour­ney to the Promised Land
Gra­ciela Mochkofsky
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Look­ing for Ali­cia: The Unfin­ished Life of an Argen­tin­ian Rebel
Marc Raboy
Essay

Inves­ti­gat­ing ​‘The Mur­ders of Moisés Ville’

Javier Sinay
March 28, 2022
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The Mur­ders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America
Javier Sinay, Robert Croll (Translator)
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When Anti­semitism Came to Venezuela

Moisés Naím
October 6, 2021
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Every Day the Riv­er Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena
Jor­dan Salama
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The Maps of Mem­o­ry: Return to But­ter­fly Hill
Marjorie Agosin, Lee White (Illustrator)
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Nues­tra Améri­ca: My Fam­i­ly in the Ver­ti­go of Translation
Claudio Lomnitz
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For­giv­ing Stephen Red­mond: A Kurchenko & Gon­za­lvez Mys­tery — Book Two
A.J. Sidran­sky
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The Mik­vah

Daniela Weil
November 16, 2020
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Excerpt: The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

Michael Zap­a­ta
September 24, 2020
Essay

Exile in the Andes

Jen­nifer Steil
June 22, 2020
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The Return of Car­va­jal: A Mystery
Ilan Sta­vans
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The Sev­enth Heav­en: Trav­els Through Jew­ish Latin America
Ilan Sta­vans
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