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Featured Article: Dictator novel
The dictator novel is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role of the dictator in Latin American society. The theme of caudillismo—the charismatic authoritarian "strongman"—is addressed by examining the relationship between power, dictatorship, and writing, and is used as an allegory for the role of the Latin American writer in society.
Popular Article: Tent caterpillar
Tent caterpillar is the common name for any of the social caterpillars comprising the genus Malacosoma in the moth family Lasiocampidae. Tent caterpillars typically are characterized by the conspicuous silk tentlike webs, or tents, that these larvae build in the branches of host trees. The forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria, is exceptional in that the larvae build no tent at all, aggregating instead on silken mats that they spin on the leaves or bark of trees.
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker was active in the Civil Rights Movement (source: Alice Walker)
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