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"Don't Blink": Marcela Fuentes Brings Malas to the Forty Acres
Marcela Fuentes on La Llorona, female rage, a twelve-way bidding war, and why the thing you most need to write is the thing you fear.
Oct 169 min read


The Things We Swear We’ll Never Repeat: Inheritance and Becoming in Peggy Robles-Alvarado’s Burn Me Back
What happens when a mother looks at her daughter and realizes she is repeating the very thing she once promised herself she would never do? What if the behaviors we inherit from our mothers are not always ones we would be proud to show off?
Sep 305 min read


The End of an Era: Xochitl Gonzalez’s Last Night in Brooklyn
Read alongside The Great Gatsby, Xochitl Gonzalez's Last Night in Brooklyn asks whether money ever buys belonging in the upper echelons of society.
Sep 146 min read
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