Book Review: “A Visit from the Goon Squad”

Jennifer Egan’s novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, is a sonic, narratively variegated timepiece in which the chapters act as cogs. As the novel progresses and the reader is […]

I knew the moment I laid my eyes on The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry, that I had to have it. The 728-page bilingual anthology not only brings […]

My son is almost one year old. It will still be a couple of years before he’s reading, but as his father I’ve made sure he already has more books […]

And today, an interesting discussion about Daniel Hernández’s “Down & Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty First Century,” which in Adolfo Guzmán-Lopez’s estimation is a “pull-you-by-the-hand-otherwise-you’ll-get-swallowed-by-the-mosh-pit account […]

According to a new survey, Latinos are increasingly making up the market for e-readers and tablets, just as the number of people who owned an e-reader doubled in six months. […]

I remember the first time I read Oscar Zeta Acosta’s super-Chicano novel, “The Revolt Of The Cockroach People.” I was in eighth grade, during silent sustained reading, and happened to […]

[Editor’s Note: This story by Roberto Ontiveros was originally published in the Texas Observer.] MY LATE GRANDMOTHER MARTHA made mole—which I knew as a dark peanut and chocolate sauce over chicken—for […]

You might be saying to yourself, “Sara, what does Lisbeth Salander have to do with a crazy pocha like you?” Well, I would argue that a whole lot. I absolutely […]

A hard core telenovela story comes to us from Hollywood. We wrote previously about Latina author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, who is currently embroiled in a battle with NBC and George Lopez’s […]

By Vincent Bosquez Call it cosmic faith, or a poignant buena suerte, but a few hours before I learned of San Antonio icon Carlos Guerra’s death last week, I had […]