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.

"Oh, I auditioned for that show, but I heard they were going ethnic." Imagine sitting at a table with other women in the acting industry and hearing this, knowing you were the "ethnic hire". This was Stephanie Beatriz's reality when she landed the role of Rosa Diaz on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. She recounts this uncomfortable memory on the More Better  podcast she co-hosts with Melissa Fumero. Perhaps the woman meant to say, "I'm happy to see more representation on television"—at l

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.

Alejandro Heredia offers something far more valuable: the messy, beautiful truth of lives lived between languages, cultures, and identities

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.

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

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.

rooted in a vision of futurity that both resists Latinx dispossession and dismantles economies of thirst that propagate it

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.

A knockout graphic novel, Aguirre’s brilliantly crafted Monster Locker bursts to life with Vera Martínez’s gorgeous illustrations.

The Originals: a lens through which we can explore the lasting impacts of colonial legacies and complexitities of mestizo subjectivities.

The first trans non-binary archaeologist Sloan Cameron AKA Venture (they/them) pops out with their drill and dream!

"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

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

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

Marcela T. Garcés's coming of age as a second-generation Colombian American and her experiences as a Spanish heritage speaker.