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‘Afterlife,’ Julia Alvarez’s First Novel in 15 Years, Explores Aging & Death

Claire Jimenez — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 20:53:56 +0000

Julia Alvarez recently released her first adult novel in fifteen years. This time, the beloved author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of Butterflies takes on the themes of aging and death. In Afterlife, a recently widowed, elderly Dominican-American writer named Antonia is pulled into a moral predicament about

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5 Cookbooks to Feed Your Spirit While in Quarantine

Claire Jimenez — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 01:18:29 +0000

Watching the coronavirus spread around the world and especially my home (New York City) over the last month forced me to find ways to stay calm and find joy while stuck in graduate school in the middle of Lincoln, Nebraska. For me, that meant starting to cook and returning to traditional dishes that reminded me

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Review: Mexican Novelist Fernanda Melchor’s ‘Hurricane Season’ Is a Painful, Important Exploration of the Horrors of Femicide

Claire Jimenez — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 21:08:18 +0000

Last month, tens of thousands of women in Mexico took to the streets to protest the increasing trend of violence against women, chanting “Ni una más.” Not one more. Since January, hundreds of women and girls have been murdered in Mexico. One of the youngest victims was a 7-year-old girl named Fatima, whose body was

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INTERVIEW: OITNB Star Selenis & Activist Marizol Leyva Create an Expansive Portrait of Girlhood in ‘My Sister’

Claire Jimenez — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:38:35 +0000

Marizol and Selenis Leyva’s inspiring memoir My Sister is the moving story of two Latinas who grew up in the Bronx in the nineties. Marizol’s perspective and coming out story as a trans woman is at the center of the narrative. Through their alternating chapters, Marizol and Selenis manage to create an expansive portrait of

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A Chat With Natalie Diaz Ahead of the Release of Her Long-Awaited Poetry Collection ‘Postcolonial Love Poem’

Claire Jimenez — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 22:06:05 +0000

Natalie Diaz’s much anticipated second collection of poetry, Postcolonial Love Poem, is an exploration and celebration of love, as well as a critique of the factors that threaten it—specifically, settler colonialism and the United States’ violent history of oppression against Native peoples. In poems such as “exhibits from the American Water Museum,” Diaz also explores

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Remezcla Reads: A Chat With Mexican Author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo About His Moving Memoir, ‘Children of the Land’

Claire Jimenez — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:33:46 +0000

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo turns to memoir in Children of the Land in order to explore his family history and the double consciousness of living undocumented in the United States. The result is beautiful. Hernandez Castillo is most known for his work as a poet and his award-winning 2017 collection of poetry Cenzontle. Even though his

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Remezcla Reads: Daniel José Older’s ‘Shadowshaper Legacy’ Blends Fantasy & Activism for YA Readers

Claire Jimenez — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 20:46:15 +0000

Fans of Daniel José Older’s acclaimed young adult trilogy Shadowshaper Cypher will not be disappointed with the series’ third and final novel, Shadowshaper Legacy. In the newest book, which was published on Tuesday, Older deepens the history of the Shadowshapers, traveling back in time to Puerto Rico to explain the origins of their magic. For readers

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Poet Laureate Luis Rodriguez’s New Essay Collection Looks at the Growing Violence Against Latinos

Claire Jimenez — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:54:25 +0000

Luis Rodriguez’s collection of essays From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Journeys, and Imaginings From a Native Xicanx Writer does not begin with his own words but rather those of a reader he overheard speaking about his 2003 short story collection The Republic of East LA: “You teach Mexicans a little English and now

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In ‘The Truth Is,’ NoNieqa Ramos Shares the Complicated Story of a Young Queer Latine Love

Claire Jimenez — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:35:24 +0000

NoNieqa Ramos’ second young adult novel The Truth Is centers on a young queer Puerto Rican teenager named Verdad. In the text, published on September 3, the protagonist is struggling with the loss of her best friend, who died in a mass shooting, and falling in love with a new student in her class named

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Remezcla Reads: With Bilingual Poetry Book ‘While They Sleep,’ Raquel Salas Rivera Reverses the Colonizer’s Gaze

Claire Jimenez — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:11:05 +0000

In Raquel Salas Rivera’s stunning new collection of poetry while they sleep (under the bed is another country), the nonbinary Puerto Rican author spotlights the struggle of translation to magnify the gaps in experiences between the colonizer and the colonized. Each line in English is accompanied by a footnote in Spanish that does not translate

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