Tim Z. Hernandez’s "They Call You Back" expands upon his prior documentary novel All They Will Call You, about the deaths of twenty-eight Mexican nationals in a California... Read More

Moving through the ambiguities of language—English, Spanish, and Paraguay’s Indigenous Guaraní—the grin of a big cat shadowing his every unstealthy step through North and... Read More

In Alma García’s novel "All That Rises", two families living on the borderland between the US and Mexico share a tangled history. Rose Marie leaves her husband and three... Read More

Everyone is looking for something in Reyes Ramirez’s story collection The Book of Wanderers. Across ten stories, each focal character is a wanderer in their own way. Some are... Read More

Some consider deserts vast expanses of barren wasteland; a politician once called them “kitty litter.” If anything can transform such opinions toward respect and... Read More

Olivas’s bold insistence on leaving a few seams visible makes his stories resound as a fascinating exploration of the art of storytelling. Angelenos on the margins make their... Read More

In his new memoir, "Nobody Rich or Famous", poet Richard Shelton doesn’t so much tug on the heartstrings as play an entire set upon them. Rightly subtitled “a family... Read More

Native American customs and intractable cultural divides clash in this detective story that has depth. In this installment of his Kiowa Country series, Tom Holm brings back... Read More

In Sara Sue Hoklotubbe’s newest Sadie Walela mystery, "Sinking Suspicions", Sadie is trapped in Hawai’i after an earthquake hits, leaving her far away from her Oklahoma home... Read More

Grace Dillon brings together nineteen works by indigenous writers from four countries for this anthology, the first of its kind. These six short stories and thirteen novel... Read More

Life in Calexico, California, population just under 50,000, is circumscribed by border town issues, like the severely restricted access to its sister-city Mexicali, Mexico,... Read More

“Since 1993, over 450 girls and women have been murdered in or near the cities of Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico, along the US–Mexico border,” Valerie Martinez writes.... Read More