Book Review by Jose B. Gonzalez Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar Hector Tobar’s Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free is everything that a well-researched …
Book Review by Jose B. Gonzalez Dad, Me, and Muhammad Ali by Felix Manuel Rodriguez There is an undeniable charm to this book. First of all, its topic is Muhammad Ali, and who doesn’t love any story about this boxing legend? But there is more to it than that. It revolves around a nine-year old …
Book Review by Jose B. Gonzalez Xánath Caraza’s Conjuro does just as the title implies—it conjures. But more than that, this cross-linguistic collection provides a sensory experience that puts the reader in the center of the conjuring—all at once, the poetry conjures you and makes you feel as if you are part conjurer. Caraza incorporates Spanish English, …
Book Review by Jose B. Gonzalez The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao By Junot Díaz Riverhead Books (2007) Wao. Wow. As I read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, I kept having this strange feeling that I had heard the voices in the book elsewhere. They sounded so familiar. …
Editor’s post-publication note: Our 2019 list is full of talent that may not so easily be viewed as “new.” This list was put together at the end of 2018, but as we focused on redesigning our website, we did not get a chance to give these authors the attention they deserve–until now. In the meantime, …
