LéaLA, the Spanish-Language Book Fair and Literary Festival of Los Angeles, returns September 24–27, 2026, to LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes. Organized by the University of Guadalajara Foundation USA, th...

In the last decade, Latino Book Review has become a leading platform dedicated to celebrating, promoting, and preserving literature, arts, and culture across the United States and beyond. Through our ...

Truth be told, I didn’t have the slightest idea what “metafiction” meant until I saw it used to describe The Novel Detective, my most recent book published by Soho Crime. I soon learned it is a style ...

Some books manage to give a name to what was already unfolding, even though no one quite knew how to articulate it. Diálogo de la lengua. El arte del prompting [Dialogue of Language. The Art of Prompt...

Agostina Ferroni has developed a distinctive poetic voice within contemporary Spanish-language poetry. Following the acclaim of   Lugares   a donde no puedo volver  (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2025),...

INTERVIEW REYNA GRANDE | Growing Into Her Name POETRY JAVIER VILLARREAL | Abuelo Inez ​NATASHA MIJARES | The Right Kind of Animal LUCY NORTON | Simp’aykuna R. JOSEPH RODRÍGUEZ | Laika AÍDA ALMANZA...

I am no stranger to reMarkable. My relationship with these tablets began with the reMarkable 2, the first device that taught me what true focus felt like: not the brittle focus demanded by screens, no...

Called “a master storyteller” by Kirkus Reviews, Chantel Acevedo is the author of the novels Love and Ghost Letters (St. Martin's Press), A Falling Star (Carolina Wren Press), The Distant Marvels (E...

I would love to say that I was a self-aware, mature, and mindful adult regarding smartphone usage, but I would be lying. Like most Americans, I had fallen into the annual $7.6 trillion ecosystem desig...

Latino Leaders Speak: Personal Stories of Struggle and Triumph, Volume II, edited by Mickey Ibarra, Founder and Chairman of the Latino Leaders Network, and María Pérez-Brown, functions less like a col...

Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She is the first Latina ever to hold this position. She is the author of several acclaimed collections, including Startlement: New and Selecte...

From a harsh and unforgiving corner of Los Angeles where brave mothers took “guns and Uzis tucked beneath beds away from their sons” (p.15) wrapped them in blankets and delivered them to priests, Rey ...

For educators in the Borderlands, the most frustrating part about studying poetry in epic form is the absence of representation for students who identify as Chicano or Raza. Often, curriculum champion...

This database hub below is a carefully drawn map of a literary world too often left uncharted, bringing together Latinx authors, presses, journals, poet laureates, awards, and Spanish-language writing...

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What makes good vampire fiction? Bram Stoker’s Dracula turned the immigrant body into a vessel for the anxieties of empire. Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire made immortality a theater for grief....

I did not begin writing poetry because I wanted to be dangerous; on the contrary, I was fifteen years old and in love with a girl who had recently moved to my neighborhood in Port-au-Prince. Like many...

Over a decade ago, I immigrated back to the United States somewhat against my will. I had made a life for myself and my wife in Managua, Nicaragua. I had raised my two stepkids in the Barrio Jorge Dim...

Ivón Osorio Gallimore (Havana, Cuba) is a writer, poet, screenwriter, and radio show director and producer. She has published the poetry collections Etapas (Voces de Hoy, 2012), winner of the María Lu...

Gustavo Gac-Artigas writes a remarkable book of poetry that opens eyes and strips, not the world of books, but the fetters of thought, social control, and dominance towards women. Through his...

Rayna Grande is an award-winning author. She is widely recognized as one of the most impactful voices of Latinx literature today. Her work explores migration, coming-of-age, and the complicated beauty...

Santi—also known as Lobito, or Lobo—witnesses a murder and discovers a scrap of paper at the crime scene featuring a message written in a seemingly indecipherable language. This paper becomes a unifyi...

​Don’t be fooled or frightened by the high-falutin’ title of this novel--Pillars of Creation—or the subtitle--A Quest for the Great Name in a Nietzschean World. Yes, that interstellar image is importa...

The tears are evaporated now in Xavier Valcárcel de Jesús’s poem, but they have flowed from the stream of unrequited love as far back as Garcilaso de la Vega’s Eclogue I where Salicio says "Salid, sin...

Every so often, a literary project emerges that quietly rearranges the landscape around it—not with grand declarations or institutional backing, but with imagination, persistence, and a deep understan...

Cris Winters has a sensual way with words. Have a taste here: “Scoliosis. Like my spine, my path follows an ‘S’ rather than a straight line. My skewed mind causes the vertebrae of my passions to rotat...

The continuous progress of gender studies and feminist theory has prompted a revision of the roles traditionally associated with women, such as passivity, domestic responsibilities, labour and perhaps...

Every person is a city, carrying a world within themselves, and nowhere is this more evident than in New York. At first glance, New York might seem like one city, but that couldn’t be further from t...