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November 15th, 2024

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October 11th, 2024

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Truman Capote. Milan, le 24/02/1966. L'ecrivain Truman Capote (1924 - 1984). ©Farabola/Leemage (Photo by Leemage via AFP)

100 years of Truman Capote

October 1st, 2024

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García Marquez, Isabel Allende and Cortazar are some of the great exponents of Latin literature. Photo: WikiCommons Collage.

Hispanic culture literature

September 19th, 2024

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Monthly Book Recommendations

September 18th, 2024

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Migrant stories for children

August 29th, 2018

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An American teacher's love…

August 7th, 2018

Many of the short stories in Rivera's novel reveal harrowing conditions that Mexican American migrant workers faced, and thus could be seen as a work that calls for social change to provide better working conditions for these workers.

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Summer reading: 'And The…

August 6th, 2018

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Confronting Machismo

July 26th, 2018

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Two books to better…

July 2nd, 2018

El libro de la periodista Lauren Mackham fue ganador del 2018 Ridenhour Book Prize y seleccionaodo entre los mejores libros de 2017 por los críticos de The NY Times.

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The odyssey of two…

May 30th, 2018

Francisco Cantú served as an agent for the United States Border Patrol in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas from 2008 to 2012.

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Dispatches from the US…

May 21st, 2018

The American author of Dominican origin, Junot Díaz. Source: EPA.

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The price is the stigma

May 15th, 2018

La autora y fundadora de Shade Mountain Press, Rosalie Morales Kearns, es descendiente de puertorriqueños y holandeses de Pensilvania. Foto: Youtube

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What Would Happen If Women…

May 15th, 2018

Photo of Martin Espada, poet, and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Credit: Ram Devineni.

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A Latino poet/lawyer

May 3rd, 2018

Eppchez! is a Philadelphia-based playwright, performer, and artist. Photo courtsey of: Eppchez!

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Behind the Scenes: Eppchez!

April 5th, 2018

Raquel Salas Rivera - Queer Puerto Rican Poet. Photo: Samantha Laub / AL DÍA News

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Philly's Poet Laureate

February 28th, 2018

View of a Hebrew Bible produced in the Spanish region of Castile in the first half of the 14th century and bought privately by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for an unspecified sum.

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New York museum buys…

December 21st, 2017

Diego Trelles Paz in Lima on Aug. 5, 2017, days before the presentation of his new novel, "The Infinite Procession". EFE / Dominique Souse / Courtesy of Diego Trelles Paz /

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"I do not think I'm a…

August 7th, 2017

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking with supporters at a "Get Out the Caucus" rally at Valley Southwoods Freshman High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, on 24 January 2016. Source: Wikimedia

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Shattered: New Book…

April 24th, 2017

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Caribbean Poet and Nobel…

March 17th, 2017

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"My Name Is Lucy Barton" by…

February 12th, 2017

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Chopin Against Political…

January 31st, 2017

The Arab of the Future: Telling the Truth with Drawings

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The Arab of the Future:…

January 17th, 2017

Book Review: Barbarian Days. A Surfing Life

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Book Review: Barbarian Days…

January 10th, 2017

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Edgar Allan Poe: A…

October 18th, 2016

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Some secrets are best kept…

October 5th, 2016

Photo: Mónica Marie Zorrilla

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Strengthened through The…

September 10th, 2016

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27 years later, the Nobel…

March 25th, 2016

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Cuban-American writer…

March 18th, 2016

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Library of Congress to name…

March 8th, 2016

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World loses three renowned…

February 20th, 2016

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AL DÍA's best books of 2015

December 23rd, 2015

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The metafictional, liminal,…

December 3rd, 2015

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Ta-Nehisi Coates talks race…

October 17th, 2015

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Latino lit is alive and…

October 8th, 2015