Book Review
‘Never-Ending Youth’: A poetic novel or an essayistic memoir?
October 17, 2022Never-Ending Youth is a 2017 novel by the Brazilian journalist Urariano Mota, active in the clandestine Communist Party of Brazil during the harshest period of the country’s military dictatorship from the late 1960s to the early...
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‘Otra America’ de Barbara Kingsolver: Poemas en una edición bilingüe actualizada
August 11, 2022Aquellos que leen español encontrarán este libro igualmente significativo, el reflejo de esta otra América que Kingsolver comparte con nosotros. Los poemas están publicados, útilmente, en páginas enfrentadas en inglés y español.
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‘Maelstrom Over the Killing Fields’: Dire underdevelopment and the Filipino national idea
August 9, 2022It explores another primary focus of San Juan’s work: the literary struggle to develop a national popular Filipino consciousness under the duress of U.S. neocolonialism.
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‘Start from the heart’: Black photographer Adger Cowans, life and times
August 2, 2022Given the Jim Crow era in which Cowans grew up and matured, “I took all that racism and rejection and everything,” he said, “and I put it in my work."
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Baseball—and baseball books—are back!
May 24, 2022Now that what used to be called “Our National Pastime” is back, it’s time to look at several recently published books about the game.
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