Alexandra Alden journeys to Potosi, Bolivia and descends into the depths of the Cerro Rico Mine, where silver was first discovered in the sixteenth century.

Magical Realism: The Land, Salt and Water of Salar de Uyuni By Molly Beer Blank as an empty page, a plane of possibility stretching white to the horizon, then blurring seamlessly into sky, a spattering of distant purple hills and “islands” are visible, floating on colliding light. Even having read…