In Sevilla, Spain, the General Archive of the Indies has, for 240 years, been a repository for centuries of materials and documents gathering a record of the daily life of empire. Now ten writers from Spain and Latin America have a chance to respond to this 80-million-page trove.

With contributions from:

• Carlos Fonseca (Costa Rica)
• Carlos Granés (Colombia)
• Cristina Bendek (Colombia)
• Juan Bonilla (Spain)
• Karina Pacheco (Peru)
• Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia)
• Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia)
• Martín Caparrós (Argentina)
• Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico)
• Yásnaya Elena A. Gil (Mexico)