The 20 fellowship recipients across the arts, humanities and sciences will each receive an $800,000, no-strings-attached stipend for their work.

The beloved bookstores have been searching for a buyer for two years, ever since owner Joel Sheldon, whose family has helmed Vroman's for more than a century, announced his retirement in 2024.

If you can name more than two or three women surrealists without using Google, the 90-year-old art historian has probably helped make that happen.

Some prospectors’ ghosts leave their previous clothes real easy. My laundry shop was just a railway station on their way to the afterlife.

In her recent nonfiction book, "The Matilda Effect: How 25 Women Were Erased From History," author L.E. Carmichael recognizes the achievements women made in STEM, sports, arts and politics across diff...

Lets embark on a journey of literary Hispanic haunts with ten recommendations by talented Hispanic authors of horrifying tales.

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

Natasha Wimmer has worked on numerous books by the late, great Roberto Bolaño, including The Savage Detectives and 2666 (for which she won the PEN Translation Prize in 2009). She took Bolaño dazzling ...

Some faculty members consider the decision the next step in a broader effort to gut what remains of ethnic and gender studies at the university.

Biddy Mason’s Story Is the Story of a City's Transformation—And of a Remarkable Woman Whose Legacy Largely Disappeared

The removals were reported in just 10 of Florida’s 67 school districts. Three are in Central Florida: Orange, Polk and Sumter counties.

It’s looking like a great year for indie cinema. Which is swell news for nerds. For those of us particularly loyal to print and celluloid, the late festival circuit—including the Venice Bienn…

Latinx Flash Memoir Loving Forward Anyway (preface, Latinx Flash Memoir portfolio)Joy Castro CheckpointJohn Morán González GeraniumAnnette M. Rodríguez

Chattanooga’s Jackie Mitchell was the second woman drafted into the minor leagues of professional baseball (Lizzie Arlington was first, in 1898)—and the only...

Writer. Energy Healer. Former-insomniac-turned-sleep-coach. Inspiring the sleepless to discover the true roots of their insomnia, so they can not only get the heck back to sleep—but ultimately live a ...

People rarely say, 'I’m Hispanic.' That’s just a box we check on forms. Most of us identify by our family’s country of origin.

By the author of Chicano Frankenstein, this is "Waiting for Godot" in a modern retelling with Borderlands immigration and ICE in the mix. Waiting for Godíne...

The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Kasey Peters as the winner of the 2026 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

A new exhibition at the California Museum in Sacramento, 'Help Wanted/Leave Now!' focuses on the country's 'revolving door' of programs and practices toward immigrants.

Two days after Alex Pretti was murdered by federal ICE agents in Minneapolis, on January 24, 2026, we published a “Letter From Minnesota” from the poet Dobby Gibson. As I wrote at the time of the f…

Han VanderHart, Mialise Carney We're excited to announce the winners of the 2026 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize! In poetry, Han VanderHart has

With a Mix of Satire, Passion, and Imagination, Fiction Shapes the Future of Humanity

'I used to call my presentations ‘Know Your Rights’ workshops. Now they’re just workshops, because there are no rights,' attorney Karla Navarrete said.

This October get ready for Halloween or Día de Los Muertos by reading these titles written by Mexican or Chicano authors, based in Mexico or has Mexican/Chicano characters.

Supporters said Mason, a Black community leader in L.A.'s early days, has more significance to the city than the WWI general Pershing Square was named after in 1918.

1984 “Aqui viene el Leon.”  Here comes the Lion.  The words seemed to hang over the tiny Miami storefront. Oscar, Pepe’s boss, spoke to them almost nonchalantly. Because, on any other day, this wou…

During graduate school, I finished the novel that found me an agent—but when my agent submitted it to publishers, all twenty of them turned the manuscript down. Truthfully, it was closer to a colle…

Kerry is back this week to help us celebrate Mary Shelley's Birthday! Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley!Written by Kerry E.B. BlackCalled “The Mother of Science Fiction” and “The Original Goth Girl,” Mary ...