LatinoLit

Mundo Cruel (Seven Stories Press, 2013) by Luis Negrón: Available February 26, 2013 A recent spike in publishing projects by avant-garde Puerto Rican writers and presses has caught the attention of some stateside industry professionals and Luis Negrón’s “Mundo Cruel” may just be the icebreaker that will hopefully reveal a largely unknown community of excellent writers […]

In anticipation of the February 22 release of “Bless Me, Ultima,” the literary classic by Rudolfo Anaya, the film’s producers asked several Latino leaders why this is a movie that needs to be seen. We agree 100%. Here is the video. To find out where “Bless Me Ultima” will be screening starting February 22, visit […]

In this powerful autobiography, Luis J. Rodriguez relates stories from his youth growing up in an impoverished East Los Angeles barrio. The son of Mexican immigrants, from an early age Rodriguez constantly faces barriers to success from a system designed to keep him out. As a result, Rodriguez and his peers are forced to invent the […]

Based on a true story that unfolded in the deserts and mountains of the Devil’s Highway region—a landscape so harsh and brutal that it even claims the lives of people born in adjacent deserts, and one that became the preferred “crossing” route for Coyotes (guides that lead crossers from Mexico to the US) once the […]

Reviewed by Matt Mendez Manuel Muñoz’s debut novel, What You See in the Dark, may be difficult to classify at first glance (both editions are adorned with wonderfully pulp cover art). Is the novel a mystery? Historical fiction? Literary fiction? Latino fiction? The answer, it turns out, is yes. Written in both exacting and graceful […]

A majority of Latinos in the U.S., according to a few surveys we were able to find, support gay marriage nowadays. And although we’ve come a long way in this basic civil rights battle, it’s easy to forget that things weren’t always so sunny for those who found themselves at the crossroads of the gay […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT THREE SONORANS One of the most important parts of the federal desegregation court order on Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is the new Unitary Status Plan (USP) which is being worked on right now. Over the next three days, ending at midnight on November 28th, 2012, the public nationwide has an important role […]

Xánath Caraza’s “Conjuro” is a textural salsa of clashing and dazzling cultures, languages, histories and ancestral memories assembled in poems organized as bilingual pairings, mainly in English/Spanish, yet also with embellishments of Nahuatl and other non-European tongues that lend her painting-like compositions a dimension all their own, invoking themes of diaspora, sensuality, the subconscious, nativism, […]

Editor's Note: We are proud to call Tony Diaz, the Librotraficante, a key member of the Latino Rebels familia. I was recently knighted. I didn’t fully understand what was happening at the time as I flew to New York. But I did know that we were making history. All around the nation Librotraficantes convened, on […]

The Colombian-born, award-winning author chats with Latino Rebels about his riveting new historical novel based on the mysterious life of the author of Don Quixote, the Golden Age of Spain's most famous literary text, and what many consider to be the first modern novel. Interview by Charlie Vázquez LR: Much of Miguel de Cervantes’ life is […]

As the curtains draw open tonight at the Poets Den Theater in El Barrio, New York City – the spotlight will unquestionably shine brightly on Luis Antonio Ramos, one of the most talented Latino actors to grace the stage and screen over the past 30 years. Growing up Gonzales, the one-man play written by Felix Rojas, […]

Recuerdo ver la Guardia Nacional patrullar las calles rurales de mi cantón. Recuerdo que aun siendo un niño había que apartarse a la orilla de la calle para dejar pasar “La Guardia”, porque si no te “patiaban”. Recuerdo la noche que fuimos al aeropuerto a recoger a mi papá porque en 1979 después de cuatro […]

On the day of my 40th birthday several weeks back, I received a card from my girlfriend that read, “A man becomes a true man when he uses his words to build up and not tear down…”     And while it’s rare that any number of words has the ability to make me stop in […]

Our own @bezotes and Rebelde photog Rebecca Beard had a chance to catch up with Tato Laviera, whose musical King of Cans premiered on July 15 at New York's Red Carpet Theater and will also play on July 22 and July 29. For tickets, contact serycolon@aol.com. Tato Laviera stands up from his seat, backstage at Symphony Space, with […]

Author Carmen Tafolla = Rebelde. By the way, Tafolla is San Antonio's Poet Laureate. ¡Break it down, hermana!

Last week the US Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights filed a complaint against the governing board of the Tucson Unified School District, the latest in a series of events that continue to gain national attention, from book bans to Daily Show appearances of TUSD board members. Here is what the Arizona press is […]

Orginally Published at Librotraficante.com THE LIBROTRAFICANTE MANIFESTO by Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante "It now falls on us, the Children of The American Dream, to defend the Civil Rights of all Americans, because that is what is on the line." Arizona Legislators, THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING. HOUSTON (April 4, 2012) The 2012 Librotraficante Caravan to Tucson […]

Palabras are powerful. You don’t have to look too far to find great examples and we were fortunate to find this gem written by Juneau, Alaska raised Christy Namee Eriksen titled, “What Does An Illegal Immigrant Look Like?’ A beautiful poem that challenges you to think and see undocumented immigrants as anything but the stereotypes […]

Though initially I wanted to follow the Tucson Unified School District's ban on Mexican studies classes and related books, as it unraveled, given the many conflicting versions and accounts of what was taking place, I gave up on covering it altogether. That was until yesterday when I decided to attend a presentation by Librotraficante at John Jay College in Manhattan. […]

We are proud to showcase today the spoken word poetry of our fellow Rebelde, Rodrigo Sánchez-Chavarria. That would be @rscspokenword on Twitter. ¡Que vivan los Rebeldes! Indigenous People Day Poem Today 518 years ago a man got lost And found a ticket to fame se persino con la santa maria, la niña y la pinta and […]