Tracing the sprawling, complicated boundaries of ‘LatinoLand’


Marie Arana’s new book draws on her own experience and hundreds of interviews with others who have contemplated the meanings of Latino identity

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/03/08/latinoland-marie-arana-review/

Why Evan Gershkovich Is on the Cover of TIME

We set out to tell the story of his arrest and imprisonment, and its impact on his family, friends, and co-workers in the months to follow.

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The Freaks Came Out to Write review – how the Village Voice changed American journalism

Tricia Romano’s entertaining oral history of the radical New York newspaper is an elegy to a rough and ready era of punch-

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/27/the-freaks-came-out-to-write-tricia-romano-review-how-the-village-voice-changed-american-journalism

LAST WEEK ONE MORNING on Chambers Street where I hold my sign a Black woman I’d seen before stopped and talked and as she left said Thank You and raised her arm high in her shiny black puffy coat and made a fist and exclaimed ‘Power To The People!’

 

ABOUT CARSON McCULLERS in the latest ‘New Yorker’. Photo by Richard Avedon. Makes you want to read her again. (The magazine is rumpled and a little rain-dropped from carrying it around.)

 

Émigrés Are Creating an Alternative China, One Bookstore at a Time

From Thailand to America, Chinese denied a safe public space for discussion in their home country have found hope in diaspora communities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/business/chinese-emigres-bookstores-discussions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

What's Behind the Return of Bookstores? Just when you thought that Amazon had finished off brick and mortar stores, booksellers are making comeback. Yes, there's lots of available, low-cost, retail space. But the retail outlets are filling a bigger need. 

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