The Argentine capital has always been bookish. When hard times shuttered the big chain shops, book purveyors found a way to keep residents in fresh reading material. Carime Morales opened her ...

UNESCO named Buenos Aires the World Book Capital 2011. To celebrate the designation, Argentine artist Marta Minujin built a multi-language book tower. The 25-metre-high structure is a modern-day take ...

Every April for the last 36 years, writers and readers have descended upon Buenos Aires like autumn leaves to the city streets for the Spanish-speaking world's largest general interest literary event.

It's not every day that a book comes out on a brutalist necropolis; so when 'Chacarita Moderna' appeared in our inbox, we stood up and took notice. The publication, out this month by Building Books, ...

Arts and culture are on the fiscal chopping block in the U.S., but not in Buenos Aires. The New York Times reported that the literary city – Granta magazine recently included eight Argentines on its ...