Remembering the Influential Argentine Critic Beatriz Sarlo

Remembering the Influential Argentine Critic Beatriz Sarlo

Latin America lost one of its leading intellectual figures in December 2024, when the Argentine writer and critic Beatriz Sarlo passed away in Buenos Aires at the age of 82. Over the course of a decades-long career, she wrote about nearly every major cultural and political issue of her time: from Argentine literature and the role of memory in the aftermath of dictatorship to the changes wrought by globalization and postmodernism. She transcended…