Mario Vargas Llosa has been awarded the Pedro Henríquez Ureña International Prize for Literature by the government of the Dominican Republic, despite protests by groups calling him an enemy of the island nation.

A new book by author Carlos Reyes Mendel entitled “Journey to Taste. Gastronomic Chronicles of a Chile You Do Not Know” addresses the evolution of Chilean cuisine, and makes the surprising claim that the pig should be at the center of that nation’s eating habits.

Mexican artist Gustavo Aceves has installed 40 sculptures in symbolic areas of Rome as a dynamic response to the emergency migratory crisis affecting European countries. Aceves has called the exhibition, titled Lapidarium, “a work in progress” and, beginning in 2017, it will be traveling through a number of other cities as well, including Venice, Paris,