Crónica is the name given to a variety of literary journalism written in Portuguese and Spanish, coincidentally the main languages of the Global South. Cronistas are its practitioners. Usually a short piece, crónica is simultaneously a highly readable form of literary journalism and a tool for societal and political criticism, inspired by day-to-day events and common livelihood. The authors of the chapters in this book are Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking scholars, based in Europe and Latin America, and also, in some cases, cronistas themselves. Their attention is focused on this journalistic format, popular since the nineteenth century, heir to a longstanding tradition in stirring audiences with topics often so close to home that they are invisible to established public opinion. Crónica renders those common issues noticeable and relevant, turning their media inexistence into topic matter. Drawing on examples written in both languages, across the Atlantic and on three Continents, this volume analyzes a corpus seldom viewed together, while establishing their connections and differences, and further opening the study of crónica to English-speaking circles.