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Mark Falcoff

Mark Falcoff is resident scholar emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. His books include The Spanish Civil War: American Hemispheric Perspectives (with Fredrick B. Pike) and A Culture of Its Own: Taking Latin America Seriously (Transaction).

Articles

Waugh's postcolonial studies. (Reconsiderations) , September 2006, 84
A reconsideration of Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief.

Revolution for the rich: James's (Features) , March 2006, 21
On Henry James's great political novel.

Reconsiderations: Conrad's Latin America (Features) , January 2005, 35
On Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard.

The historiographical earthquake (Features) , September 2001, 58
A review of Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War, edited by Ronald Radosh, Mary W. Harbeck, and Grigory Sevostianov.

Bored & boring (Books) , December 1998, 85
Review of The Politics of Spanish American “Modernismo” By Exquisite Design by Gerard Aching

Greatest living Irishman (Books) , March 1995, 73
A review of Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O’Brien by Donald Harman Akenson & Conor Cruise O’Brien Anthology edited by Mr. Akenson.

Castroenteritis (Books) , January 1995, 72
A review of Mea Cuba by Guillermo Cabrera Infant.

Shorter notice (Books) , January 1994, 78
Of The Man Who Wasn’t Maigret by Patrick Marnham.

A life of his own (Books) , June 1993, 69
A review of Gerald Brenan by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.

The faithless Malraux (Features) , November 1992, 30

Carlos Fuentes discovers America (Notebook) , April 1992, 77

Literature and politics in Latin America (Features) , December 1991, 26

Orphans of utopia (Notebook) , June 1991, 75
On the 16th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Crystal City, Va.

France between the lines (Books) , April 1991, 63
A review of My France by Eugen Weber.

The historian’s craft (Books) , March 1991, 77
A review of Marc Bloch: A Life in History by Carole Fink.

Jacques Soustelle, 1912–1990 (Notebook) , October 1990, 84

García Lorca and his times (Features) , January 1990, 25

“An aristocrat in the public square”: José Ortega y Gasset (Features) , September 1989, 34

The doleful legacy of Carlton Beals (Books) , February 1989, 62
A review of Carlton Beals: A Radical Journalist in Latin America by John A. Britton.

Victoria Ocampo’s “Sur” (Features) , October 1988, 27
On the Argentine literary journal.

Americans in Mexico (Books) , February 1986, 71
A review of The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes.

Mexico at the movies (Books) , December 1982, 78
A review of Mexican Cinema by Carl J. Mora.

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