Non-fiction Archives - Americas Quarterly

The Key to Democratic Stability in Latin America

A new book shows how countries that have an institutionalized party system can weather crises more easily than those that don’t.

A new book by a veteran journalist tracks the political uses and abuses of the region’s history.

In an internationally hailed new book, a sociologist traces Brazil’s tumultuous development through his trucker father’s life story.

A new book retraces the 15 years of grueling litigation that followed but doesn’t emphasize the contractual changes it provoked.

A new book tracks the civil strife and botched U.S. policy behind decades of mass migration. But now, the patterns are shifting.

Electoral juggernaut and hotbed of discontent, the capital’s outlying cities have loomed large. Is that about to change?

A new book tries to address the thorny, still evolving legacy of Chile’s radical free-market reformers.

The general was an early advocate for Indigenous people—but reality has fallen brutally short of his ideals.

A new book sheds light on why evangelical Christianity has generated greater electoral power in some Latin American countries than in others.

Cutting through cliché and dogmatism, the Cuban writer’s new collection delivers a “masterclass in creative reportage.”