By Rion Amilcar Scott Near the end of the first day of my third Ramadan, Omar went to the store as the sun set and returned at the brink of the moon, bearing everything I requested except the dried fruit. I specifically said dried apricots and raisins. When he...
The One Before By Juan José Saer Open Letter, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-934824788 $12.95 (paperback) Reviewed by Ryan C. Corder Juan José Saer has been regarded as the “most important Argentinian writer since Borges” by The Independent. Considering Borges’s legacy,...
By Roberto Loiederman We went to Santa Fe in Paul and Cheryl’s rust-colored pick-up truck, a ’48 Chevy that had ugly splotches on the exterior, holes in the floorboards and no heat, so as soon as we got into higher elevations, it was cold in the vehicle. Joan and I...
Reviewed in this essay: We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters, Brian Gilmore, Cherry Castle Publishing, 82 pp., ISBN 9780692273272 The Day of the Border Guards, Katherine E. Young, University of Arkansas Press, 74 pp., ISBN 9781557286550 Honest Engine, Kyle Dargan, University...
Night at the Fiestas By Kirstin Valdez Quade Norton, 2015 ISBN: 0393242986 $15.95 (Paperback) Reviewed by Melanie J. Cordova Conceptions of New Mexico by mostly white easterners in its early time as part of the United States usually involved notions of danger,...
