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Taco Tour with Nacho: A Binational Odyssey Through Ignacio Sánchez Prado's Tacos
This is how I read Nacho's Taco, the latest entry in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series: as an invitation to ride along, to taste and think and remember.
3 days ago7 min read


The Irreducible People - A Book Review on LatinoLand
Diego Rivera reviews LatinoLand through an insightful analysis and gets to the book's core arguments and delivery.
3 days ago4 min read


From Nepantla Realism to Chatbot Dreams: An Interview with Daniel Chacón
Daniel Chacón's fiction doesn't just cross borders; it questions the very nature of boundaries themselves.
Nov 76 min read


Swimming in Anzaldúa's Archive: How Water, Serpents, and Sirenas Build Chicana Feminist Worlds
Anzaldúa's work is central to my research interests, particularly materials related to children's and young adult literature, queer femininity, and water imagery in folkloric contexts.
Nov 68 min read


The Ghost in the Ceiba Tree: Why Anita De Monte Laughs Last Is the Latinx Art Novel We've Been Waiting For
This refreshing novel weaves together the story of forgotten Cuban artist Anita de Monte in the 1980s and Puerto Rican-American Raquel Toro in the late 1990s. Anita battles marginalization in the art world and oppression from her abusive husband—even after her death. A decade later, Raquel navigates her identity as a Latina at Brown University, constantly reminded of her supposed inferiority in elite spaces.
Oct 244 min read


Cuentista of the Borderlands: An Interview with Denise Chávez
Living as I do, entre mundos/between moving worlds, I hope to continue to tell stories that illuminate, resist, and heal.
Oct 237 min read


Veronica Chapa's Malinalli: A Story of Growth on Two Fronts (Book Review by Gilbert Areizaga)
Chapa tells a new story for Malinalli, creating an environment where Malinalli has a chance to show herself in a way that history has not afforded her.
Oct 94 min read


Monsters in Our Mirror: How "Our Shadows Have Claws" Reclaims Horror for the Latinx Soul
For too long, horror has spoken in a single accent—one that whispers of European castles, New England graveyards, and monsters born from traditions that never felt like home. But Our Shadows Have Claws (Hatchett, 2022) arrives like a long-overdue reckoning, and this time, the terror speaks in voices I recognize, in languages that feel like family.
Oct 74 min read


Breaking Free in Two Languages: Alejandro Heredia's Loca Maps the Queer Dominican Journey
Alejandro Heredia offers something far more valuable: the messy, beautiful truth of lives lived between languages, cultures, and identities
Oct 65 min read


"Crossing bridges and borders": Tahir Farooq Reviews The Border Between Us by Rudy Ruiz
While the border is commonly depicted as a site of danger or crisis, Ruiz shows it as a place of community and care. Families move between cultures with ease, switching between Spanish and English, crossing bridges and borders not in fear but as a part of daily life. This depiction honors South Texas as complex, vibrant, and deeply American.
Oct 15 min read


PUTINOIKA: Giannina Braschi Breaks All the Rules to Find Hope in Chaos
This is about stepping into a world of what-ifs and asking questions that can unravel everything.
Oct 18 min read


The Gospel According to Dagoberto Gilb!
It's a book for all time. It's the stories of working Chicanos who build the physical and cultural infrastructure of this country while being told they don't quite belong. Their stories will always matter. They will always need telling.
Sep 268 min read


Genesis Stanley's Book Talk: Natasha Alford's American Negra
Genesis Stanley's Book Talk on Natasha Alford's Extraordinary Memoir, American Negra
Sep 260 min read


Writing at the Edges: Antonio Farias on Violence, Tenderness, and Truth
This book is, in many ways, a love letter to the Southwest—especially Colorado and New Mexico.
Sep 209 min read


Against Sameness: LOCA and the Art of Being Otherwise
When I'm writing, I'm not thinking about representing an entire culture or place. I'm just thinking about representing the experiences of these particular people on the page.
Sep 117 min read


"Blood on the Fogón": How Elba Iris Pérez Captures the Brutal Beauty of Growing Up Between Worlds
This semi-autobiographical novel lands like a punch to the chest because Pérez refuses to sanitize the migrant experience. Instead, she offers something far more valuable: an unflinching look at how families fracture and heal under the weight of assimilation, how racism operates both outside and within our own communities, and how resilience grows in the most unlikely soil.
Sep 63 min read


Las Payasas: Girlhood, Quinceañeras, and the Borderlands of Memory
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.
Jul 173 min read


An Alchemical Reaction: Review of Isabel Cañas' The Possession of Alba Díaz
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.
May 223 min read


Digging for Love: Latinx Representation Shines in Jo Segura’s Raiders of the Lost Heart
With her Mexican heritage front and center, Segura tells a story that blends romance, adventure, and meaningful social critique with effortless charm.
May 12 min read


Latinx Narratives in Anime: Alita: Battle Angel, a Cultural Adaptation Without Erasure
Alita: Battle Angel is a vibrant, layered world mirrored the social disparities often explored in Latin American cinema
Apr 304 min read
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