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Miami food
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 day ago

The tired faces of Cuban deportees to Mexico: I'm already old, I don't want to die here'

Deported migrants from the U.S. face dire conditions in Tapachula, struggling to survive and longing to return home.
fromArtnet News
2 days ago

The Printmaker Who Became a Hero of Mexican Cultural Identity

Frida Kahlo, during her 1933 trip to New York, created a colorful haven in her hotel room by covering the walls with prints by José Guadalupe Posada, which depicted sensational news and political imagery.
Arts
Photography
fromThe Nation
3 days ago

Alejandro Cartagena's Mexico in Flux

Photographs capture the transformation of landscapes and suburban growth, reflecting themes of isolation and environmental change.
fromThe New Yorker
4 days ago

Valeria Luiselli Reads Julio Cortazar

Valeria Luiselli, an acclaimed author, discusses the intricacies of Julio Cortázar's 'The Night Face Up,' highlighting its themes and narrative structure that intertwine reality and dreams.
Books
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

Eliades Ochoa, the last great troubadour: People in Cuba have lost their joy'

Eliades Ochoa's aura is so powerful that under the generous rays of sunlight streaming through the large window on this March morning, he evokes a Western film.
Madrid food
SF LGBT
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

Luis Salgado: It's an honor to be a Hispanic director telling the story of US independence'

Luis Salgado's version of 1776 reinterprets American history, highlighting the contradictions of freedom and the rights of enslaved people.
History
fromThe Nation
1 week ago

In "Bomarzo," the Renaissance Man is a Monster

The novel Bomarzo explores the complexities of Renaissance ethics through the reflections of its narrator, Pier Francesco Orsini.
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 week ago

Video: The Aching Power of Abraham Vazquez

Abraham Vazquez has this lusty, powerful, aching voice. This song is about loss, and you feel it with every inch of intensity that he's performing.
Music
Arts
fromHyperallergic
6 days ago

Juan Usle's Childhood Shipwrecks

Juan Uslé's retrospective at Museo Reina Sofía showcases his evolution from a traumatic childhood memory to a vibrant artistic career.
#deportation
US news
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

Salvadorans deported by Trump to Bukele's megaprison fight against being forgotten

Five Salvadorans deported to El Salvador in March 2024 remain imprisoned without contact with families or lawyers, while Venezuelan deportees were released after a prisoner swap and can rebuild their lives.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads "Floating"

Souvankham Thammavongsa is an acclaimed author known for her poetry and award-winning works, including 'How to Pronounce Knife' and 'Pick a Color'.
SF LGBT
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

Honduras photo archive preserves country's queer memory

Abigail Reyes Galindo preserves memories of murdered trans friends and highlights the ongoing violence against the LGBTQ+ community in Honduras through the Cuir Honduras Archive.
Miscellaneous
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Elmer Mendoza: The situation in Sinaloa is not a reason to feel sad or hopeless'

Elmer Mendoza's new novel 'The Mermaid and the Retiree' shifts focus from his detective Zurdo Mendieta to explore Mexican politics, violence, and machismo through a strong female protagonist from the mountains.
Arts
fromArtforum
2 weeks ago

A Hard Sell: on Mexican art in the age of austerity

Mexico's Fourth Transformation government has drastically cut arts funding and framed contemporary art as elitist, forcing private initiatives to sustain public cultural institutions.
History
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

The hidden history of Afro-Bolivians: From slavery in silver mines to fighting for power

Cerro Rico produced massive quantities of global silver through enslaved African labor under brutal conditions in colonial Bolivia.
Social justice
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Pain Didn't Come to Kill Me' | Ep 4 El Salvador

Bereaved mothers in El Salvador unite through shared grief, transforming personal loss into collective strength and solidarity that transcends violence and despair.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Chasing Freedom by Simukai Chigudu review a powerful memoir of postcolonial unease

Independence from colonial rule does not erase historical trauma; post-colonial identity remains shaped by unfinished business between former colonies and metropoles, manifesting in belonging struggles across generations.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Antonio Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist who chronicled dictatorship and war, dies aged 83

Portuguese novelist Antonio Lobo Antunes, who explored dictatorship and war trauma through complex fiction, died at 83 after producing over 30 influential novels.
Mission District
fromSan Jose Spotlight
1 month ago

Paz-Cedillos: Culture is civic infrastructure - San Jose Spotlight

Culture functions as civic infrastructure that anchors communities to place, builds intergenerational trust, and creates stability through belonging and visible history.
Miscellaneous
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature: My Hungary is that of language, not of hussars'

László Krasznahorkai rejects symbolic interpretation of his work, insisting his literature contains no symbols, parables, or hidden meanings despite critical attempts to decode them.
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Yosimar Reyes explores lives of the undocumented in Teatro Vision show

Yosimar Reyes, an undocumented poet, became Santa Clara County's first undocumented poet laureate and created a play portraying undocumented community resilience in East San Jose.
Film
fromMission Local
2 months ago

S.F. poet Alejandro Murguia stars in new documentary, and the Mission gets its close-up

Keeper of the Fire documents Alejandro Murguía and the Mission District's cultural, poetic resistance to anti-immigrant rhetoric and efforts to impose a single national culture.
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Urban Transformation of San Salvador: Contemporary Placemaking in Central America

Historic center renewal has become a recurring strategy in Central American cities seeking to reassert the symbolic, economic, and functional relevance of their traditional cores. These processes often combine physical rehabilitation, institutional investment, and stricter control over public space. San Salvador offers a recent and instructive case, which allows for understanding of how interventions in inherited civic spaces balance infrastructure improvement with heritage conservation and social regulation.
Renovation
Writing
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Literary Theory

Words carry multiple meanings; 'swallow' embodies both bird and ingestion, showing language's power to alter perception and emotional states.
US politics
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 month ago

Santa Clara Co. poet laureate pens 'love letter' about immigrants facing threat of deportation

A play, No Llegamos Aquí Solos, portrays undocumented community balancing activism and everyday joy, drawing on a DACA poet's experience caring for his grandmother.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Georgi Gospodinov: Jorge Luis Borges gave me an exhilarating sense of freedom'

Early reading fostered a lifelong devotion to books and writing, shaped by adventure, criminology, eroticism, Salinger, Borges, and Bulgarian poets.
Film
fromKqed
2 months ago

Colombian Farce 'A Poet' Is a Brilliant Critique of Hypocritical Creatives

A Poet follows failed Colombian writer Oscar Restrepo, a farcical yet uncompromising poet who mentors a promising student, blending gritty satire with comedy and tragedy.
Music
fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Joshua Chuquimia Crampton Announces New Album Anata

Anata, a new album by Joshua Chuquimia Crampton of Los Thuthanaka, arrives February 6 on Puro Fantasía; lead single 'Ch'uwanchaña ~El Golpe Final~' is available.
Photography
from48 hills
2 months ago

At SFMOMA, Alejandro Cartagena's photographs strike deep community chords - 48 hills

The 'Carpoolers' series documents Monterrey residents riding in pickup truck beds, capturing everyday life and workers amid cartel violence.
World news
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Venezuela's exiles in Chile caught between hope and uncertainty

Chilean Venezuelan diaspora celebrated a U.S. operation against Maduro while acknowledging the regime's resilience and the deep migration-driven transformation of Chilean communities.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Spanish author lambasts linguistic academy over social media influence

The Spanish Royal Academy is ignoring professional writers and yielding to social media influence, undermining language standards and the notion of correctness.
US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Liam and the other Ecuadorian children trapped between Trump's immigration crusade and Noboa's silence

U.S. immigration enforcement detained Ecuadorian children, leaving families fearful and in hiding while Ecuador's president remained publicly silent, signaling political deference to U.S. power.
Film
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

Lav Diaz on 'Magellan,' His NYFF Joke About Casting Gael Garcia Bernal During Sex, and Bela Tarr's Stubborn Nature

Lav Diaz directed a more accessible biopic, Magellan, starring Gael García Bernal, filmed in the Philippines and foregrounding Magellan's abusive treatment of indigenous peoples.
History
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Andrea Martinez Baracs, historian: Indigenous allies saved the Spanish on the Night of Sorrows'

Tlaxcalans allied with the Spanish as strategic partners, maintaining autonomy and leveraging local knowledge to oppose the Triple Alliance during conquest.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Meet the Artist in El Salvador's First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion

Migration is a thing that transforms a human into a different type of human ... the self being transformed into this being that doesn't exist there, and doesn't exist here
Arts
Books
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Valeria Luiselli on Sound, Memory, and New Beginnings

Field recordings and attentive listening are integral to narrative creation, shaping the writing process and immersive listening experiences.
#beatriz-gonzalez
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Five Venezuelan Artists Respond to US Attacks

U.S. military raid in Caracas on January 3 abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, killed at least 40, and polarized diaspora artists' responses.
Books
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The lost lessons of Jorge Luis Borges: His English and American literature classes

Recovered 1966 lectures by Jorge Luis Borges were published, revealing lost oral work and previously uncollected material through meticulous editorial recovery.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Visions of Venezuela and Cuba From Exile

Otherworldly forms greet you at the entrance to the exhibition, transporting you into a kaleidoscopic, dream-like space. A voice speaks in the background as projected images dance across the forms, animating the space. "It's been really beautiful to see her work come alive, become a landscape ... where you can traverse and kind of get lost," curator Fabiola R. Delgado says of Lisu Vega's "The Uncertain Future of Absence (El Futuro Incierto de la Ausencia)" (2025).
Arts
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Brutal, vibrant and creative: capturing the soul of Latin America in 100 photographs

Latin America balances a history of violent subjugation with a resilient, culturally rich identity expressed through art, photography and transnational solidarity.
fromPublishersWeekly.com
1 month ago

WI2026: PW Talks with Xochitl Gonzalez

In addition to writing fiction, you're a staff writer for the and a screenwriter. How do you think of your career? I think of myself as a storyteller. I'm nosy, so once I'm telling a story, I want to know what happens. I do find, with fiction, I can't toggle in and out of it. It's like acting, where you have to stay with that character, in that world.
Books
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

International Rendezvous at Guatemala's Paiz Art Biennial

The 24th Bienal de Arte Paiz, The World Tree, presented 46 artists across ten venues, exploring the tree-of-life myth and its ties to Mayan cosmogony and social interconnectedness.
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