LatinoLit

It’s a bit of a mystery why Rulfo remains so unfamiliar in the United States compared with similarly popular Latin American authors who have managed to attract wide followings in English translation.

i will not remain silent

My heart pounded in my chest—not once in my life had I seen a book (fiction) about someone so much like me.

Sweet baby boy, Christ child,
do not fear me

The scuffle died down as quickly as it had started and monotony returned to the alleyway.

Naming what is at stake/in the Homeland Security State

I’m burning up/there are very few numbers left

For empathy to truly work, we have to disturb our sensibilities and reach past ourselves.

“At LCG, publishing is not just a matter of a releasing a book, it is a matter of developing a whole artist ready to take on the world.”

A ruling is expected in a few weeks.

It’s a case that few are following, but we have been for years.

What would it take for you to give up your home?

“Thank you, class of 2017, for not confining your learning to papers and classroom walls.”

I pledge allegiance to the tears and to the sweat and to the blood…

“We are the people of the sun.”

Profiling a Chicana educator who’s worked tirelessly for the equality of all people.

Organizers Nora Comstock, Adriana Domínguez and Marcela Landres speak with Latino Rebels ahead of the annual conference in October in New York City.

Puerto Rican neo-fiction seeks to address the social and psychological problems that afflict modern Puerto Rico, whether in regard to ‘self-racism,’ neo-colonialism, foreign influence, identity crisis and the effects of issues that have afflicted the island for the last two hundred years. The genre would not be bound by single traditional genres such as horror […]

Dedicated to my greatest teachers—the immigrant population of the United States. To those that like many of my family members, who suffer under a broken and racist immigration system, have not yet been able to bury their dead or cry at their graves. Nothing more powerful than the New York Subway In its serendipity led […]

“Latino writer” is a label whose purpose is to make you feel like you are a part of something big, important and ultimately has nothing to do with you as an individual. “Latino writer” does not denote quality or innovation, it is not a movement nor does it embody a single worldview, but what it […]

St. Patrick’s Day is very special in Mexico because it is a time when Mexicans remember the San Patricios, or the Battalion of St. Patrick.