Books

  • Nuestra Palabra es Fuego

    La Pájara Pinta y los poetas de la revolución en El Salvador, 1965-1975 / Our Word is Fire: La Pájara Pinta and the Poets of Revolution in El Salvador, 1965-1975

    Roger Atwood

    Published by the National University of El Salvador in 2024, this book tells the story of an influential magazine published in El Salvador from 1966 to 1972, La Pájara Pinta, where non-conformist writers experimented with literary forms and themes and gradually channeled their literary aspirations into radical political action by joining guerrilla movements challenging the country’s military order — Based on the private letters of poet Roque Dalton and essayist Italo López Vallecillos and interviews with La Pájara Pinta’s surviving writers and illustrators, this book is “the product of exhaustive bibliographic research and interviews” (La Prensa Gráfica). Read More

    • Destined to be a touchstone

      La Prensa Gráfica

  • Stealing History

    Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World

    by Roger Atwood

    From the publisher: In this fascinating book, Atwood takes readers on a journey through Iraq, Peru, Hong Kong, and across America, showing how the worldwide antiquities trade is destroying what’s left of the ancient sites before archaeologists can reach them, and thus erasing their historical significance. Read More

    • Compelling, thorough, first-hand

      American Journal of Archaeology

  • Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World

    A Memoir Anthology

    Edited by Nancy C. Atwood and Roger Atwood

    Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors-some eminent, some less well known-who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Read More

    • Wonderfully varied . . .

      Julia Prewitt Brown, author of Jane Austen's Novels: Social Change and Literary Form

RA Urn II
Urn, Mexico (Roger Atwood)