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AL DÍA Reads features new and notable books!

November 15th, 2024

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What to read in October!

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

Anagrama

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Anger at Latin America

January 9th, 2023

La Navaja Suiza, 2022

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Wild Howl

January 3rd, 2023

Penguin Random House

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Saving the Neighborhood

January 2nd, 2023

monkey boy francisco goldman

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Monkey Boy

January 1st, 2023

Pelé in 2010. Wikimedia Commons

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Books about Pelé

December 30th, 2022

Barack Obama shares his favorites in literature, film and music each year. Photo: WikiCommons

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Obama's 2022 favorites

December 26th, 2022

Macmillan Publishers, 2022

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Liberation

December 23rd, 2022

The next printed edition of the Spanish Language Dictionary will be in 2026. Photo: Flickr

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New words in the RAE

December 21st, 2022

This year marks Alejandra Pizarnik's 50th anniversary of her death. GETTY IMAGES

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The Cursed Poet

December 20th, 2022

Duke University Press, 2022

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Panama in Black

December 19th, 2022

Wikipedia/Seix Barral

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What Was Left Unsaid

December 16th, 2022

Colombian writer Ricardo Silva Romero is known for his particular use of humor. Photo: Facebook/Courtesy

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How to live in vain

December 15th, 2022

Cristian Alarcón was born in Chile, but his family emigrated to Argentina to escape political repression when he was a kid. Photo: Alejandra López/ Penguin Random House

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The Ancestral is Feminine

December 14th, 2022

Hernán Cortés and Montezuma's ambassadors. Painting by José Galofré (1854). Archivo General de Indias / Wikimedia

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Clash of Empires

December 9th, 2022

Mexican writer Yuri Herrera currently teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans. Source: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images

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Fabulating a Secret

December 9th, 2022

Barbara Mujica is an award-winning short story writer and essayist whose work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Miami Herald, among others.

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A novel about Miss del Río

December 8th, 2022

New book by UC Riverside’s Richard Rodríguez explores musical connections between Latino fans and British bands. Duke University Press, 2022

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Transatlantic Intimacies

December 8th, 2022

Martín Máximo Pablo de Álzaga Uzué was an Argentine millionaire that inspired Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby. Source: Editorial Renacimiento

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He Inspired The Great Gatsby

December 7th, 2022

FlowerSong Press, 2022

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Untold Stories

December 5th, 2022

Rafael Cadenas in 2016. Source. Wikipedia

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The Poet of Venezuela

December 5th, 2022

Kids Can, 2022

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Making the World Better

December 5th, 2022

'City Of Joy' author Dominique Lapierre in 2008. Photo: CARLOS ALVAREZ/GETTY IMAGE

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Passionate about India

December 5th, 2022

Colombian writer Juan Carlos Botero lives in Miami with his family. Photo courtesy of the author/ Penguin Random House

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The Power of Chance

November 29th, 2022

Argentina writer Mariana Enriquez at the Buenos Aires Book Fair, May 2022. Photos: Wikipedia/ Kaloian/ Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación.

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Who is Mariana Enriquez?

November 28th, 2022

In her books, Chilean Nona Fernández explores collective memory

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A Literature of Memory

November 28th, 2022

Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza lived for some time between San Diego and Tijuana. Source: Wikipedia

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The Tijuana-San Diego Divide

November 28th, 2022

Children's illustrator Toño Malpica, at the 36th International Book Fair in Guadalajara. Sunday, November 27, 2022, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Photo: Nabil Quintero

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LATAM Celebrates Books

November 28th, 2022

Peachtree

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Come In, My Friend

November 22nd, 2022

Penguin Random House, August 2022

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Tumbling with the Past

November 21st, 2022

University of Texas Press

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Undocumented Mothers

November 20th, 2022

Photo: © Alejandra Lopez /PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

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Tales of terror

November 17th, 2022