Latinx
Volume 41, Number 2
January-February 2020
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Frederick Luis Aldama’s Introduction to Focus: All Shades of Brown — Latinx Literature Today
Juan Velasco reviews Norma Elia Cantú’s Cabañuelas
Laura Fernandez reviews Melissa Rivero’s The Affairs of the Falcóns
Cristina Rivera reviews Elizabeth Acevedo’s With Fire on High
Cruz Medina reviews Luis Alberto Urrea’s The House of Broken Angels
Ricardo Padilla reviews Jean Guerrero’s Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir
Mario Grill reviews Cherríe Moraga’s Native Country of the Heart
Theresa Rojas reviews Norma Elia Cantú’s Meditación Fronteriza: Poems of Love, Life, and Labor
Katlin Marisol Sweeney reviews Yesika Salgado’s Hermosa
Bonnie Rose Opliger reviews Jennifer Givhan’s Rosa’s Einstein
Brian Montes reviews Beatriz Rivera’s Museum of Broken Relationships: A Cuban Saga
Ayendy Bonifacio reviews Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive
Alberto Ledesma reviews Claudia D. Hernández’s Knitting the Fog
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