The Venezuelan artist, recently awarded the Pérez Museum Miami’s annual prize, reflects in this conversation on categories of insanity and the richness of marginalized voices, shaped by their distinct ways of seeing reality
Twenty years ago, C4 Trío found a formula for success that embodies a lesson for the culture of a plagued nation: know your traditions, open yourself to the world, do things right
Maduro calls out a supposedly imminent U.S. invasion to gain domestic control and foreign support. But the fact is that Venezuelans have been living for decades under a force that treats them like the enemy
Arturo Uslar Pietri was the epitome of rigor and serenity, a wise man with a cool head. But this novel from 1931 is a glimpse into the cruelty of the 1814 Guerra a Muerte
The novel by Adriano González León that won the Biblioteca Breve Prize in 1968 gathered the political subjects and the experimental tools of its era, and yet continues to be a very powerful literary experience
Published by Rómulo Gallegos in 1929, the “greatest Venezuelan novel of all time” is steeped in prejudice that may offend modern readers, but also poses enduring questions and retains a powerful narrative force
One of the most celebrated writers of contemporary Venezuela just published the first of four novels around a fictional music band. Its goal: To use that story as an indirect mirror of our country’s mutation
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