Debut Novel ‘Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You’ Brims with Menace
Ariel Delgado Dixon’s compulsively readable debut novel, Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You, explores what it means to cope with a shared, painful past.
Derick Gomez
Derick Gomez is a Philadelphia-based writer and oral historian.
Marcial Gala’s ‘Call Me Cassandra’ Revolts Against Gender Constraints
In Call Me Cassandra, Marcial Gala dismantles the suffocating binary of unyielding machismo in pre- and post-revolutionary Cuba.
Alejandro Zambra’s ‘Chilean Poet’ Is a Tender Ode to Parents and Language
In ‘Chilean Poet’, Alejandro Zambra reaches the sublime through descriptions of everyday routine amongst family members – however they describe themselves.
Alonso Ruizpalacios ‘A Cop Movie’ Walks a Thin Genre Line
Alonso Ruizpalacios’ sort of documentary, ‘A Cop Movie’ (Una película de policías), takes on the challenge of presenting what real-life policing looks like.
Ariel Dorfman’s Novella ‘The Compensation Bureau’ Is a Fantastical Plea for Hope
A thin book of big ideas, Ariel Dorfman’s ‘The Compensation Bureau’ leaves much to the imagination, like a brilliant sketch of a fantastical parable.
Deadpan Masterpiece ‘Two-Lane Blacktop’ Keeps Cruising at 50
Two-Lane Blacktop roars with the hopes of an era when gearheads, hucksters, and hippies believed that time on the road would solve all their problems.
‘To Walk Alone in the Crowd’ Is Convinced of Its Own Cleverness
Antonio Muñoz Molina’s novel To Walk Alone in the Crowd is a brilliant yet tedious meditation on the role of the artist in the age of overload.
Peynado’s Debut of Short Stories ‘The Rock Eaters’ Defamiliarizes the Familiar
Pulsing with imagination, Brenda Peynado’s short story collection, The Rock Eaters, is a bold statement of intent from an emerging voice worthy of the hype.
Chilean Author Nona Fernández’s Historical Fiction ‘The Twilight Zone’ Dismantles Good and Evil Dichotomies
In search of answers from Chile’s painful past, Nona Fernández imagines and reconstructs the events surrounding the testimony of a real-life torturer in her book, The Twilight Zone.
Jayro Bustamente’s War Crimes Film, ‘La Llorona’, Reckons with Crushing Guilt
Bustament’s Efraín Ríos Montt-inspired La Llorona reimagines the Latin American folk tale of a woman mourning her children along the banks of the river where they drowned.
Puerto Rican American Memoir, ‘My Broken Language’ Speaks Multilingually
Quiara Alegría Hudes reckons with the dissonance of a multilingual narrative in her memoir, My Broken Language.
Reframing the Diaspora in “Latinx Photography in the United States”
‘Latinx Photography in the United States’ makes clear how many of the struggles from generations past continue to this day.