Art & literature

This comic is a tribute: to her, to the borderlands, and to the mestiza consciousness that takes shape in the messy, meaningful rituals of becoming.

If you’re looking to read horror, historical fiction, slow burn romance, or simply a few hundred pages of engrossing prose, Alba Díaz and Isabel Cañas will not disappoint.

With her Mexican heritage front and center, Segura tells a story that blends romance, adventure, and meaningful social critique with effortless charm.

Alita: Battle Angel is a vibrant, layered world mirrored the social disparities often explored in Latin American cinema

NoMAA’s exhibit would be the stepping-stone for everyone’s hair and identities

There are no white people in The Sunbearer Trials. Period.

Platforms like TikTok and Instagram reels become a center for Latinx creativity... there is a creative freedom that this funding allows that has resulted in the emergence of Latinx comedy that is written, directed and performed by Latinx creators for a Latinx audience.

Chapa reimagines La Malinche through a fantastical lens, centering themes of language, loyalty, and vengeance.

Erika Abad talks with Gigi Guizado about the recent surge in readings and performances of Latin American and Latino plays across the Vegas Valley.

Vampires of El Norte is a powerful contribution to Latino-centered storytelling that reclaims horror as a space to explore memory, resistance, and survival.

A "house of mirrors," the book spans eras—from the Republic of Texas to a dystopian future Atlanta to 1990s Los Angeles.

Another Side of History breaks down the hegemonic door that has tried to shut out complexities of Mexican American and borderland history.

With her evocative storytelling, Melissa Coss Aquino turns a story about two cousin-turned-sisters dealing drugs into a character study.

My Side of the River is more than a memoir it is a reminder of how stories can heal, connect, and inspire.

Fernando Flores’s Brother Brontë--a novel that delves into the power of literature and the transformative role of storytelling.

American Negra: A Memoir brings attention to the issues of Afro-Latinidad with Hispanic/Latinx communities.

Every story offers the reader a different perspective on the young Chicanx experience.

Celebrate Dominican Heritage Month with 6 Must-Read Books by Dominicana American Authors!

Real Women Have Curves: The Musical pushes against the normality of Latinas being forgotten in these spaces. 

Sanctuary is about escaping a horrific regime, while Solis focuses on fighting back to build a better world.

Opera is not just a European artifact but a global and evolving tradition capable of reflecting the lived experiences of diverse cultures.

Natalia Sylvester on her writing process, the power of representation, and the challenges and joys of telling Latina-centered stories today.

This exhibit challenges me to reframe past, present, and future as more cyclical than linear.

Catalina refreshes the campus novel by tackling issues like rising tuition, student activism, and racial diversity and undocumented status

In this historical fiction, noir romance novel, Moreno-Garcia captures the escalating violence between Mexico’s government and protesters.

"Son de Mi Ser" exhibit Challenges inarticulation and settler colonialism

PUTINOIKA writes against any definitions and forms while acknowledging the possibility of creating the unexpected!

Undocumented Writers as beings of this earth, of the countries of their or their parents’ origins, and equally of America

Welcome to Oxnard celebrates Michelle Serros all while paying homage to Oxnard

nothing can prepare you for the unique voice that is Iniguez in his debut poetry collection Mexicans on the Moon!

Rios De La Luz's An Altar of Stories to Liminal Saints is speculative fiction that captivates readers and pushes the genre!

El Paso native and current Austenite, Miguel A. Briones , reclaims Chicano masculinity in Macho No Machismo: Helpful and Nice , a...

Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher’s YA novel, Solis asks, how imminent a future can dystopian fiction imagine for young readers?

Aunt Lute Books serves as a case study of what ethical solidarity looks like!

Melissa Castillo Planas Interviews poet José Olivarez. The talk about Latinx pop culture, translation, COVID lockdown, migration. . .

Erika Abad interviews two-spirit artist Xochil Xitlalli

Through community conversation, artists and community members connect, share, and reflect on what "Diosa energy" is.

Matt de la Peña and Paola Escobar's kid's book, The Perfect Place, asks, what’s so great about being perfect, anyway?

Offers deeply personal accounts of pockets of California and their complexity!

The exhibit not only showcases three-dimensional objects of lowrider culture but also provides briefs about its history

Gume Laurel III’s books do something that not all YA texts do— they let queer teens be more than tropes of their sexuality.

10 Latinx/ Latine Poets for Pride Month

I want to highlight how artists across the U.S. cross ethno-national borders to heal together.

It’s a way to intentionally affirm the Otherness that a conformist mainstream throws at youth.

Aldama offers a path forward by offering readers an emotional, intellectually spirited & collectivist minded tale.

I wanted Max Rodriguez to hit the hard truths but also, and overwhelmingly, to take readers to places of joy and compassion.

While the borderlands shape each protagonist differently, their individual stories thread together to form a greater tapestry.

what I took from Hill's talk was a humble attitude of gratitude for all the little lights that shone in the dark, the simple gestures.

Lucrecia Guerrero’s latest novel, On the Mad River, set in the hardscrabble former factory town of Mad River, Ohio, we’re reminded of Latinx

The novel is exactly what the “misfits, botched-jobbers, and unapologetic originals” have been waiting for.