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Ana Serrano: Salon of Beauty

Ebony Porter

Judging a Neighborhood by Cover: Salon of Beauty by Ana Serrano Download Complete PDF / Descargar Ana Serrano’s latest work Salon of Beauty replicates the eclectic and funky buildings, façades and signage typically found…

Experience With Power

Debra D. Andrist

Gwendolyn Díaz Ridgeway, Women and Power in Argentine Literature Austin, University of Texas Press.

City of Death, City of Hope

Ciudad de muerte, ciudad de esperanza

Cecilia Balli

Rothko Chapel organized a magnificent series of lectures about violence in Ciudad Juárez. Our special thanks to them for providing us with the permission to cover Cecilia Balli´s work. *…

On What is Normal…

Rogelio García-Contreras

Freak. Function: noun. Etymology: origin unknown. 1 a: a sudden and odd or seemingly pointless idea or turn of the mind b: a seemingly capricious action or event 2 archaic…

Two Latin Pulitzer Awards

Junot Díaz, Óscar Hijuelos

Junot Díaz Junot Díaz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead Books/Penguin), Professor at MIT and current fiction…

The Excessive Imagination, Interview with Francisco Hinojosa

Socorro Venegas

Mexican writer Francisco Hinojosa can presume to have impacted thousands of readers who have read his work since they were young children. And to have impacted them, now grown, to…

Storytelling with Intellectual Honesty: A Conversation with Graciela Limón

Gabriela Baeza Ventura

Acclaimed Chicana author, Graciela Limón is a native of Los Angeles. She is Professor Emeritus at Loyola Marymount University, where she taught Latino literature and served as Chair of the…

The Persistence of Memory: A Conversation with Mario Vargas Llosa

La memoria pertinaz

Miguel Ángel Zapata

Translated to English by Rose Shapiro Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, Peru, 1936) spends part of every year in Lima, Madrid, Paris, and London. This summer I had the good fortune…

Aguántame tantito más: Pathology of an Urban Tale

Bradley Warren Davis

Unlike Juan Rulfo, who described the submissive and fatalistic lives of country folks living in extreme deprivation in a depressed agricultural setting, Rose Mary Salum, in a little more than…