Graywolf Press. 2025. 240 pages.Economists refer to the 1980s as Latin America’s “Lost Decade.” Uncontrolled foreign debt and inflation depressed incomes, leading to the region’s wors…

New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2024. 256 pages.Napalm in the Heart is an imaginative novel that provides a sketch of dystopia through letters, photographs, tally marks,…

Mara Faye Lethem, tr. New York. Knopf. 2013. ISBN 9780307700681To its great credit, this extremely competent novel has prompted uncritical vacuity and petty comments in some American book reviews. The…