Havana breathes, swears and cries in Dariel Suárez’s first novel, The Playwright’s House (Red Hen Press, 2021). With a plot that blends family stories and national history, this is a beautifully layered book that shows Cuba through the eyes of a native. Serguey is a young lawyer employed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expecting …
Book Review by Vincent Bosquez Book Review: No Greater Love: The Lives and Times of Hispanic Soldiers by Retired Maj. Gen. Freddie Valenzuela, with Jason Lemons In March 2003, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Alfredo “Freddie” Valenzuela presided over the funeral of Army Spc. Rodrigo Gonzalez-Garza, the first casualty of the Iraq war. Gonzalez-Garza was born in Sabinas …
Book Review by Vincent Bosquez By Daniel Alarcon In the late 1980s, I served as a Marine Corps recruiter in South Texas where it was my goal to enlist three recruits a month into the armed forces. At the time, “making mission” was all that mattered to me since I knew the Corps would take …
Book Review by Jose B. Gonzalez I have to admit that I am not a big fan of cartoons or comic strips, and I am indeed one of those readers who prefers to let words speak for themselves. Having said that, I have been intrigued by the work of many talented Latino artists who have made …
By Felipe de Ortego y Gasca Scholar in Residence and Chair of the Department of Chicana/Chicano and Hemispheric Studies, Western New Mexico University In many ways, Sun, Stone, and Shadows fulfills the promise of its editor—to present a Pleiades of the best short story writers of Mexico in the first half of the 20th century. …
