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...moreAngie Cruz discusses her newest novel, DOMINICANA.
...moreYaffa S. Santos discusses her debut novel, A TASTE OF SAGE.
...moreAriel Francisco discusses his forthcoming second collection, A SINKING SHIP IS STILL A SHIP.
...moreInes P. Rivera Prosdocimi discusses her debut poetry collection, LOVE LETTER TO AN AFTERLIFE.
...moreThe ocean is deep, unfathomably so. And one can stay on the surface or keep on plumbing the depths.
...moreNaima Coster discusses her debut novel, Halsey Street, getting pushback on her use of Spanish, and the importance of equity and inclusion in higher education.
...moreWe are all punchlines. Projections of projections of projections. But whose joke is it? And where is the bill?
...moreGlobal Voices introduces us to El Hombrecito, a music group that interweaves Dominican poetry and visual art into their performances, in a story written by Natali Herrera Pacheco and translated by Eleanor Weekes. El Hombrecito hopes to spark interest in the country’s literature by setting it against the backdrop of bachata, rock, or experimental music, […]
...moreGarrard Conley, author of the new memoir Boy Erased, discusses growing up in the deep South, mothers, writing for change, and political delusions.
...moreI don’t think it ever fully sunk in for me that I even live in America.
...moreJunot Díaz, whose literary portraits of his home country are by turns critical and sympathetic, has been deemed unpatriotic by the Dominican Republic’s consul in New York, Eduardo Selman. After campaigning in Washington for the rights of undocumented immigrants, the author was stripped of an order of merit award presented to him in 2009.
...moreThis is part of the mystery and sometimes frustration of doing collage—trying to remember where things came from.
...more“One in four Americans is employed to protect the rich.” Here’s an underreported story: Dominicans are coming to the aid of Haitians, despite a less-than-idyllic history between the two countries. VICE is taking a ton of heat for its treatment of Liberia in “The Vice Guide to Liberia.” A very cool looking architectural installation that […]
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