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Latin American literature
The Best Spanish-Language Novels: From Don Quixote to Today
Spanish is one of the great literary languages, and it holds two capitals at once. It gave the world the first modern novel and, four centuries later, the most influential novel of the twentieth century. To read across it is to travel between two continents that share a tongue but not a history.
Magical Realism Books: What the Genre Is and Where to Begin
A woman ascends into heaven while folding laundry, and the neighbors mourn only the lost bedsheets. That image holds the secret of a genre that insists the marvelous was here all along, folded into the ordinary, waiting to be seen.
Summer Reading List for High Schoolers: 16 Books Worth Your Time
Most high school summer reading lists are the same list, mostly American, mostly the same handful of authors. This one is built differently: 16 books from Senegal to Soviet Russia to Mexico, organized by grade level, that make the world feel larger.
