“Any debate concerning the relation between intellectuals and power could be shut down in ten seconds by pointing out that Martin Heidegger, probably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, joined the Nazi Party.”

Óscar Collazos, one of the last surviving members of the famed Colombian Boom generation of writers, died last May after being diagnosed nearly a year ago with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

It has been over three months since opening at Colombia’s National Theater, but Labio de Liebre (Harelip), a tragicomic political drama written, directed, and starring Fabio Rubiano in association with the Teatro Petra, continues to play to packed houses with each performance.

Archaeologists on site in the Peruvian rainforest have unearthed two silver ceremonial cups most likely interred during the sixteenth century.

Cuba has long been undergoing a process of denationalization, a phenomenon that has over time all but completely eroded the country’s cultural identity. 

One of Panama’s most unique folkloric traditions, La danza de los cucuás (the Dance of the Cucuás), appears to be making a comeback after nearly going extinct. 

Chile’s master of painterly realism, Ricardo Maffei, explained his origins and career. 

The theater company Os Fofos Encenam was forced to cancel its performance of a play entitled “The Wife of the Train,” scheduled for May 12th at the Itaú Cultural Institute in São Paulo, due to widespread accusations of racism on social media.

The Colombian filmmaker Lisandro Duque claims that the literary works of Gabriel García Márquez are unfilmable, this despite the Nobel Prize winner’s passion for cinema.

Members of the Mexican delegation to this year’s Buenos Aires Book Fair discussed future prospects for their nation’s literature.