Latinx Literature Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/latinx-literature/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:16:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Latinx Literature Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/latinx-literature/ 32 32 Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina” https://www.publicbooks.org/karla-cornejo-villavicencio-on-catalina/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56956 “I find human behavior fascinating. I find it interesting. I find all of it confusing, every single aspect of it.”

The post Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina” appeared first on Public Books.

]]> Jamie Figueroa on “Mother Island” https://www.publicbooks.org/jamie-figueroa-on-mother-island/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56817 “The greatest way to honor another is with this intense complexity of truth, of love, of forgiving.”

The post Jamie Figueroa on “Mother Island” appeared first on Public Books.

]]> Sarah McNamara on “Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South” https://www.publicbooks.org/sarah-mcnamara-on-ybor-city-crucible-of-the-latina-south/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56611 Sarah McNamara’s new book Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South is a deeply personal history of the Florida city where she grew up. In this episode of Writing Latinos, we talk about her Cuban grandmother, the family storyteller and archivist of Ybor City’s Latino community. When McNamara was a little girl, her grandma brought […]

The post Sarah McNamara on “Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South” appeared first on Public Books.

]]> Luis Miranda on “Relentless” https://www.publicbooks.org/luis-miranda-on-relentless/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56604 “I learned early on in politics … that all politics are local. You don’t need to speak with one voice to the Latino electorate.”

The post Luis Miranda on “Relentless” appeared first on Public Books.

]]> Melissa Mogollón on “Oye” https://www.publicbooks.org/melissa-mogollon-on-oye/ Wed, 22 May 2024 15:00:29 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56310 “There is a fixation on our self worth that is really tied to our physical body. … I [wrote] the extreme, the product of what that does to your psyche.”

The post Melissa Mogollón on “Oye” appeared first on Public Books.

]]> Cecilia Márquez on “Making the Latino South” https://www.publicbooks.org/cecilia-marquez-on-making-the-latino-south/ Wed, 08 May 2024 15:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56129 “Using non-Black as opposed to white is acknowledging that Latinos can be both nonwhite and benefit profoundly from white supremacy.”

The post Cecilia Márquez on “Making the Latino South” appeared first on Public Books.

]]> Andrew Boryga on “Victim” https://www.publicbooks.org/andrew-boryga-on-victim/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:00:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55979 “It was definitely in demand, this narrative of explain to me your oppression, you know, explain to me how hard you had it.”

The post Andrew Boryga on “Victim” appeared first on Public Books.

]]> “I’ve Embraced the Outsider Status”: A Conversation with Francisco Goldman https://www.publicbooks.org/ive-embraced-the-outsider-status-a-conversation-with-francisco-goldman/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55956 “That reality, such suffering, and violence, so much evil, was just shattering. Of course I witnessed so much courage too, and goodness, much of it doomed.”

The post “I’ve Embraced the Outsider Status”: A Conversation with Francisco Goldman appeared first on Public Books.

]]> Melissa Lozada-Oliva on “Candelaria” https://www.publicbooks.org/melissa-lozada-oliva-on-candelaria/ Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55817 “I wanted to explore miscommunications between families, and I wanted to explore how deep sisterly love really goes.”

The post Melissa Lozada-Oliva on “Candelaria” appeared first on Public Books.

]]> Cristina Rivera Garza: “the traces that shelter us” https://www.publicbooks.org/cristina-rivera-garza-the-traces-that-shelter-us/ Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:00:35 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53608 One novelist spotlights an object, feeling, or sensation where the relay between past and present, or present and future, becomes visible.

The post Cristina Rivera Garza: “the traces that shelter us” appeared first on Public Books.

]]>