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)