Latin American Review of Books
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The first review of my book is out!! 🎉 Many thanks to @latamrob.bsky.social for all the kind words! #History 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social
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Rocket men
Cuba’s nuclear brinkmanship contains lessons about imperialism and internationalism. Review: The Fate of the Americas, Renata Keller, by Gavin O'Toole
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November 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The first review of my book is out!! 🎉 Many thanks to @latamrob.bsky.social for all the kind words! #History 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social
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Cuba’s nuclear brinkmanship contains lessons about imperialism and internationalism. Review: The Fate of the Americas @UNC_Press #Cuba #Venezuela #antiimperialism #Revolution #socialism #SovietUnion
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Rocket men
Cuba’s nuclear brinkmanship contains lessons about imperialism and internationalism. Review: The Fate of the Americas, Renata Keller, by Gavin O'Toole
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November 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Cuba’s nuclear brinkmanship contains lessons about imperialism and internationalism. Review: The Fate of the Americas @UNC_Press #Cuba #Venezuela #antiimperialism #Revolution #socialism #SovietUnion
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Podcast: As Trump threatens Caracas, we revisit books on the Bolivarian Revolution #Venezuela #UnitedStates #imperialism #LatinAmerica #Cuba #Revolution #antiimperialism #socialism latamrob.substack.com/p/podcast-34...
Podcast 34: Back to the future—ten books on Venezuela
As Trump employs gunboat diplomacy to seek regime change in Caracas, we revisit books on the Bolivarian Revolution when Latin America's 'pink tide' was defying the empire
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November 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Podcast: As Trump threatens Caracas, we revisit books on the Bolivarian Revolution #Venezuela #UnitedStates #imperialism #LatinAmerica #Cuba #Revolution #antiimperialism #socialism latamrob.substack.com/p/podcast-34...
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So grateful for this generous review of Canal Dreamers, which situates my “eloquent” and “expansive history” in recent context. 🗃️
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The quest to link oceans has driven Central America to distraction. Read our latest review: Canal Dreamers @lepler @UNC_Press #Nicaragua #CentralAmerica #infrastructure #PanamaCanal #imperialism latamrob.substack.com/p/blurred-vi...
Blurred visions
The quest to link oceans has driven Central America to distraction. Review: Canal Dreamers, Jessica M Lepler, by Gavin O'Toole
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November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
So grateful for this generous review of Canal Dreamers, which situates my “eloquent” and “expansive history” in recent context. 🗃️
@uncpress.bsky.social
@uncpress.bsky.social
The quest to link oceans has driven Central America to distraction. Read our latest review: Canal Dreamers @lepler @UNC_Press #Nicaragua #CentralAmerica #infrastructure #PanamaCanal #imperialism latamrob.substack.com/p/blurred-vi...
Blurred visions
The quest to link oceans has driven Central America to distraction. Review: Canal Dreamers, Jessica M Lepler, by Gavin O'Toole
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November 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The quest to link oceans has driven Central America to distraction. Read our latest review: Canal Dreamers @lepler @UNC_Press #Nicaragua #CentralAmerica #infrastructure #PanamaCanal #imperialism latamrob.substack.com/p/blurred-vi...
Brazil’s role in Pinochet’s coup has disturbing modern echoes. Review: Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and The South American Cold War @UNC_Press @LehmanCollege #LatinAmerica #Brazil #Chile #military #authoritarianism #dictatorship #ColdWar latamrob.substack.com/p/soldiers-o...
Soldiers of the sub-empire
Brazil’s role in Pinochet’s coup has disturbing modern echoes. Review: Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and The South American Cold War, Mila Burns, by Gavin O'Toole
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October 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Brazil’s role in Pinochet’s coup has disturbing modern echoes. Review: Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and The South American Cold War @UNC_Press @LehmanCollege #LatinAmerica #Brazil #Chile #military #authoritarianism #dictatorship #ColdWar latamrob.substack.com/p/soldiers-o...
Podcast: Driving Terror looks at the role of the Ford Falcon in Argentina's darkest period. Author Karen Robert talks to us about her book latamrob.substack.com/p/podcast-32...
Podcast 32: The death squads' auto of choice
Driving Terror looks at the role of the Ford Falcon in Argentina's darkest period: author Karen Robert talks to us about her remarkable study
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October 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Podcast: Driving Terror looks at the role of the Ford Falcon in Argentina's darkest period. Author Karen Robert talks to us about her book latamrob.substack.com/p/podcast-32...
Predatory patriarchs in films can fuel rebellion. Review: Fathers, Masculinity, and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema @DzeroIrina @floridapress #LatinAmerica #cinema #film #linguistics #culture #authoritarianism #patriarchy latamrob.substack.com/p/metaphors-...
Metaphors of resistance
Predatory patriarchs in films can fuel rebellion. Review: Fathers, Masculinity, and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema, Irina Dzero, by Gavin O'Toole
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October 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Predatory patriarchs in films can fuel rebellion. Review: Fathers, Masculinity, and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema @DzeroIrina @floridapress #LatinAmerica #cinema #film #linguistics #culture #authoritarianism #patriarchy latamrob.substack.com/p/metaphors-...
BOOKS IN BRIEF: read our latest reviews of books about poverty in Peru, grasshoppers in Mexico, intellectual history, and sugar in Nicaragua #bookreviews #LatinAmerica #books #politics #history #anthropology latamrob.substack.com/p/books-in-b...
Books in brief: four new titles
Read our latest reviews of books about poverty in Peru, grasshoppers in Mexico, intellectual history, and sugar in Nicaragua
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October 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
BOOKS IN BRIEF: read our latest reviews of books about poverty in Peru, grasshoppers in Mexico, intellectual history, and sugar in Nicaragua #bookreviews #LatinAmerica #books #politics #history #anthropology latamrob.substack.com/p/books-in-b...
Podcast: as Washington meddles once again in Latin America, we look at twenty books about US imperialism #UnitedStates #LatinAmerica #imperialism #antiimperialism #Cuba #Venezuela #Colombia #history #politics latamrob.substack.com/p/podcast-31...
Podcast 31: Twenty books about US imperialism
The empire is again meddling in Latin America: we look at some of the key books about its interventionist vocation
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October 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Podcast: as Washington meddles once again in Latin America, we look at twenty books about US imperialism #UnitedStates #LatinAmerica #imperialism #antiimperialism #Cuba #Venezuela #Colombia #history #politics latamrob.substack.com/p/podcast-31...
Corruption should never be defined by emperors. Review: The Elementary Forms of Corruption: Moral Imagination and Political Change in Brazil @haujournal #Brazil #Mexico #UnitedStates #corruption #LatinAmerica #crime #anthropology latamrob.substack.com/p/poor-polit...
Poor politicians
Corruption should never be defined by emperors. Review: The Elementary Forms of Corruption, Aaron Ansell, by Gavin O'Toole
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October 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Corruption should never be defined by emperors. Review: The Elementary Forms of Corruption: Moral Imagination and Political Change in Brazil @haujournal #Brazil #Mexico #UnitedStates #corruption #LatinAmerica #crime #anthropology latamrob.substack.com/p/poor-polit...
Victims of assassination foster a deathly fetish. Review: Corpse Magic #bookreviews #LatinAmerica #Colombia #crime #violence #Christianity #gangs #drugtrafficking #police #popularculture #anthropology latamrob.substack.com/p/the-cunnin...
The cunning of the weak
Victims of assassination foster a deathly fetish. Review: Corpse Magic: Echoes Active in the Slayer–Slain Nexus, Michael Taussig, by Gavin O'Toole
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September 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Victims of assassination foster a deathly fetish. Review: Corpse Magic #bookreviews #LatinAmerica #Colombia #crime #violence #Christianity #gangs #drugtrafficking #police #popularculture #anthropology latamrob.substack.com/p/the-cunnin...
Podcast: New data indicates that Latin America is the front line of a global war on nature @Global_Witness #environment #ecology #climatechange #Indigenous #AfroLatino #organisedcrime #extraction latamrob.substack.com/p/podcast-30...
Podcast 30: Green is the colour of blood
New data indicates that Latin America is the front line of a global war on nature
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Podcast: New data indicates that Latin America is the front line of a global war on nature @Global_Witness #environment #ecology #climatechange #Indigenous #AfroLatino #organisedcrime #extraction latamrob.substack.com/p/podcast-30...
Jair Bolsonaro’s racism did not come from thin air. Review: The Italian Colony of São Paulo, Giulia Riccò @FordhamPress #bookreviews #Brazil #racism #immigration #Italy #identity #farright #LatinAmerica #history latamrob.substack.com/p/italys-ori...
Italy’s original sin
Jair Bolsonaro’s racism did not come from thin air. Review: The Italian Colony of São Paulo, Giulia Riccò, by Gavin O’Toole
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September 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Jair Bolsonaro’s racism did not come from thin air. Review: The Italian Colony of São Paulo, Giulia Riccò @FordhamPress #bookreviews #Brazil #racism #immigration #Italy #identity #farright #LatinAmerica #history latamrob.substack.com/p/italys-ori...
Podcast: What can we learn about violence in Latin America from two recent titles? Bear Witness by Ross Halperin, and We Are Not Made of Sugar by Andrei Gómez-Suárez #Honduras #Colombia #podcasts #bookreviews #violence #crime #LatinAmerica HERE latamrob.substack.com/p/podcast-29...
Podcast 29: Two books about violence
What can we learn about violence in Latin America from two recent titles? Bear Witness by Ross Halperin, and We Are Not Made of Sugar by Andrei Gómez-Suárez
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September 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Podcast: What can we learn about violence in Latin America from two recent titles? Bear Witness by Ross Halperin, and We Are Not Made of Sugar by Andrei Gómez-Suárez #Honduras #Colombia #podcasts #bookreviews #violence #crime #LatinAmerica HERE latamrob.substack.com/p/podcast-29...
Murder cannot silence the truth about deforestation. Review: How to Save the Amazon, Dom Phillips and Contributors @bonnierbooks
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#Brazil #Amazon #journalism #environment #deforestation #climatechange latamrob.substack.com/p/a-martyr-s...
A martyr speaks
Murder cannot silence the truth about deforestation. Review: How to Save the Amazon, Dom Phillips and Contributors, by Gavin O'Toole
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August 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Murder cannot silence the truth about deforestation. Review: How to Save the Amazon, Dom Phillips and Contributors @bonnierbooks
#Brazil #Amazon #journalism #environment #deforestation #climatechange latamrob.substack.com/p/a-martyr-s...
#Brazil #Amazon #journalism #environment #deforestation #climatechange latamrob.substack.com/p/a-martyr-s...
Authoritarian censorship imposed by Britain's Labour government under Keir Starmer aimed at stifling dissent obstruct us from sending/reading DMs. They justify this falsely as an effort to protect children but in fact it is simply to silence us. Please do not DM us. Email us at latamrevbks@gmail.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Authoritarian censorship imposed by Britain's Labour government under Keir Starmer aimed at stifling dissent obstruct us from sending/reading DMs. They justify this falsely as an effort to protect children but in fact it is simply to silence us. Please do not DM us. Email us at latamrevbks@gmail.com
The rape of the Amazon has generated a unique cultural archive. Review: The Environment in Brazilian Culture @floridapress #Brazil #Amazon #LatinAmerica #bookreviews #extractivism #ecology #environment #capitalism #Marxism #culture latamrob.substack.com/p/extraction...
Extraction as alienation
The rape of the Amazon has generated a unique cultural archive. Review: The Environment in Brazilian Culture, Patricia Vieira (ed), by Gavin O'Toole
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August 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The rape of the Amazon has generated a unique cultural archive. Review: The Environment in Brazilian Culture @floridapress #Brazil #Amazon #LatinAmerica #bookreviews #extractivism #ecology #environment #capitalism #Marxism #culture latamrob.substack.com/p/extraction...
A quixotic Chicano novel revives the Golden State’s Hispanic history. Review: Old California Strikes Back @scorussdun @FlowerSongPress #bookreviews #fiction #chicano #latino #california latamrob.substack.com/p/california...
California dreaming
A quixotic Chicano novel revives the Golden State’s Hispanic history. Review: Old California Strikes Back, Scott Russell Duncan, by Gavin O'Toole
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August 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A quixotic Chicano novel revives the Golden State’s Hispanic history. Review: Old California Strikes Back @scorussdun @FlowerSongPress #bookreviews #fiction #chicano #latino #california latamrob.substack.com/p/california...
Castro defined the struggle against imperialism by advocating internationalism. Review: Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia #Cuba #bookreviews #LatinAmerica #antiimperialism #internationalism latamrob.substack.com/p/the-cuban-...
The Cuban interregnum
Castro defined the struggle against imperialism by advocating internationalism. Review: Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia, Fidel Castro, by Gavin O'Toole
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August 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Castro defined the struggle against imperialism by advocating internationalism. Review: Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia #Cuba #bookreviews #LatinAmerica #antiimperialism #internationalism latamrob.substack.com/p/the-cuban-...
A Cuban crucible of internationalism holds lessons for the left. Review: Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves, Frances Peace Sullivan @floridapress #bookreviews #Caribbean #anti-imperialism #sugar #racism #internationalism #socialism #communism #solidarity latamrob.substack.com/p/eastern-pr...
Eastern promise
A Cuban crucible of internationalism holds lessons for the left. Review: Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves, Frances Peace Sullivan, by Gavin O'Toole
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July 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
A Cuban crucible of internationalism holds lessons for the left. Review: Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves, Frances Peace Sullivan @floridapress #bookreviews #Caribbean #anti-imperialism #sugar #racism #internationalism #socialism #communism #solidarity latamrob.substack.com/p/eastern-pr...
Is Latin American science fiction coming of age? Review: Pink Slime, Fernanda Trías #Uruguay #sciencefiction #LatinAmerica #climatechange #environment #ecology #literature #fiction latamrob.substack.com/p/slimy-harb...
Slimy harbinger
Is Latin American science fiction coming of age? Review: Pink Slime, Fernanda Trías, by Georgina Jiménez
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July 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Is Latin American science fiction coming of age? Review: Pink Slime, Fernanda Trías #Uruguay #sciencefiction #LatinAmerica #climatechange #environment #ecology #literature #fiction latamrob.substack.com/p/slimy-harb...
Hunger in Mexico’s countryside belies the wealth of its cuisine--and guess who is to blame? Review: México Between Feast and Famine @EC8A82 @AZpress #Mexico #foodways #food #colonialism #diet #Indigenous #imperialism latamrob.substack.com/p/let-them-e...
Let them eat cake
Hunger in Mexico’s countryside belies the wealth of its cuisine—and guess who is to blame? Review: México Between Feast and Famine, Enrique Ochoa, by Gavin O'Toole
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July 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Hunger in Mexico’s countryside belies the wealth of its cuisine--and guess who is to blame? Review: México Between Feast and Famine @EC8A82 @AZpress #Mexico #foodways #food #colonialism #diet #Indigenous #imperialism latamrob.substack.com/p/let-them-e...
A long-forgotten Mexican film enriched the internationalism that distinguished Tito’s Yugoslavia #cinema #Mexico #film #Yugoslavia #internationalism #socialism #communism #Tito @Carlos_Film @isanchezprado latamrob.substack.com/p/carpe-diem
Carpe diem
A long-forgotten Mexican film enriched the internationalism that distinguished Tito’s Yugoslavia, writes Gavin O’Toole
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July 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A long-forgotten Mexican film enriched the internationalism that distinguished Tito’s Yugoslavia #cinema #Mexico #film #Yugoslavia #internationalism #socialism #communism #Tito @Carlos_Film @isanchezprado latamrob.substack.com/p/carpe-diem
Britain’s footprint in South America is still visible. Review: Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South America, Shafik Meghji @ShafikMeghji @HurstPublishers #LatinAmerica #Britain #history #neocolonialism #SouthernCone latamrob.substack.com/p/forgotten-...
Forgotten colonies
Britain’s footprint in South America is still visible. Review: Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South America, Shafik Meghji, by Gavin O'Toole
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June 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Britain’s footprint in South America is still visible. Review: Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South America, Shafik Meghji @ShafikMeghji @HurstPublishers #LatinAmerica #Britain #history #neocolonialism #SouthernCone latamrob.substack.com/p/forgotten-...