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‘La Ciudad De Los Paraguas Rotos,’ a Latina’s Novel About the...

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In 1890, Oscar Wilde published what I think is one of the highest literary works ever written in the English language: “The Picture of...

I Wrote the Book We All Needed Growing Up Latina

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I wrote “The New Latina” when I realized you couldn’t be what you don’t see. But this is how I arrived at that conclusion.  I...

Why We Can’t Help But Still Channel Don Quixote’s Free Spirit...

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I once went to Miguel de Cervantes' translator's apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan to glimpse her bookshelves. I wasn't spying for...

Menudo Fever Lives On: Book Telling The Band’s Complete Story Has...

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The new millennium brought with it numerous changes and novelties. From new diets to a generation more concerned about the environment, the technological revolution...

Don’t “Get” Poetry? Change That, This National Poetry Month

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The list is endless: Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Nobel winner Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, and Pablo Neruda, another...

Two Latinas Make the International Booker Prize Shortlist, in a Powerfully...

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Contrary to what the most pessimistic may expect from a crisis that has most of the world's population confined to their homes, literature is...

Remembering Pura Belpré, New York’s First Latina Librarian, a Proud Puerto...

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A few years ago, the Association for Library Services to Children announced this year’s Pura Belpré Awards, naming Carlos Hernandez, the author of Sal...

Writing Your Latino Story: How Not to Pull an American Dirt

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Have you been following the controversy over American Dirt? If not,you should — it’s a textbook lesson in creating social justice impact through social...

“Writing My Latino Novel” is the Social Media Response to American...

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Nowadays, no opinion thermometer is more accurate than social networks. Especially Twitter, where the hottest debates can even determine a White House presidency. This time...

How Two Women Transformed a Journey into the Most Important Record...

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When we talk about the road trip phenomenon in the United States, our minds immediately turn to Route 66, to Jack Kerouac, and to...

Brazil Opens Its Doors to Black Feminist Literature

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In the midst of the rise of the so-called Third Feminist Wave, literature and art have been fundamental means for the transmission of challenges...

The Moth Honors Writer and Cultural Critic Roxane Gay Tomorrow at...

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Author Roxane Gay is the guest of honor for the 2019 Moth Ball, where she will be receiving the Moth Award for the bravely...