Latin America

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A memoir, essay, history, travelogue, and meditation on the mighty taco. Taco is...

A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For...

The sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries, this book is Ernesto Che Guevera's journal documenting the young Argentine's second trip through Latin America, revealing the emergence of a committed revolutionary.These letters, poetry, and...

Translated by Eduardo Aparicio The Stories behind the Symbols A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating histories Galileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in...

Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Fourth Invasion examines an Ixil Maya community's movement against the construction of...

The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil “Part theory, part manifesto, part history. . . . [Where We Stand] has the makings of...

Indigenous Traditions as a Recipe for Living Well Based on over ten years of fieldwork in Peru and Aotearoa New Zealand, Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways explores how Quechua and Māori...

A First English Translation “A dazzlingly fresh take on universal themes.… [B]ursting with practical wisdom.” ―Skye C. Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic A philosophy grounded not in a...

The agave plant was never destined to become tasteless, cheap tequila. All tequilas are mezcals; all mezcals are made from agaves; and every bottle of mezcal is the remarkable result...

Finding Home: The origin story behind the feelgood film of the summer Lin-Manuel Miranda's new book gives readers an extraordinary inside look at In the Heights, his breakout Broadway debut,...

The dramatic and entertaining account of the revolution in Cuba, from the architect of its success‘We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat of...

The last diary of revolutionary Che Guevara with entries up until two days before his murder. This new edition of Che Guevara's diary of the last year of his life...

From the editor of This Bridge Called My Back, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline, and also tells the story of the Mexican American diaspora Native...

Timely reissue of the classic radical history of race and modernityIn this ground-breaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American,...

Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today.Carlos Manuel lvarez, one of the most exciting young writers...

Letters: 1947–1967 A new selection of the letters of Che Guevera, from birth to death, revealing a new side to his personal and political life Che Guevara was an inveterate...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States...

 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIRA 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, TIME AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work...