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
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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
...considerable insight into the causes of looting
Patty Gerstenblith in 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
...beautifully curated...
Adam Goodheart, author of 1861: The Civil War Awakening
