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 Aguilar (Mexico)