The very most recent book indexed by Southwest Humanities is an excellent forthcoming title by Matthew Bush, an associate professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at Lehigh University. His book, Other Americans: The Art of Latin America in the US Imaginary offers fine and subtle readings of a diverse array of film, television, and literature produced in or about Latin America. These include works by Peruvian-American author Daniel Alarcón, Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666, the Coen brothers’ film No Country for Old Men, Matt Piedmont’s Casa de mi padre , and the Netflix series Narcos, Narcos: Mexico, and El marginal. “These widely consumed works about Latin America—equally balanced between narratives produced in the United States and in the region itself—are laden with fear, anxiety, and shame, which has an impact that exceeds the experience of reception. . . By analyzing the underlying melodramatic structures of these works that would portray Latin America as an implicit other, Bush examines a process of affective comprehension that foments an us/them, or north/south binary in the reception of Latin America’s globalized art.” For more information about this excellent book, see the publisher’s website here.