Netflix is premiering one of the most anticipated and ambitious projects in Latin American fiction: Mis Muertos Tristes (My Sad Dead). Directed by acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín – ...

Years before I published the first Chloe Vega book, I spent the summer of 2018 interning on a political campaign in Las Vegas. My host family constantly played CNN on TV, and if you remember summer ...

With the devastating statement: “Stop all this talk about monsters, Michele. Monsters don’t exist… It’s men you should be afraid of,” Italian author Niccolò Ammaniti set the tone for his most famous ...

Currently, Mexican American author Reyna Grande is best known for her groundbreaking memoir The Distance Between Us and works of historical fiction, including Across a Hundred Mountains. And she’s ...

Kristian Mercado’s Mataron a Pedro carries the weight of history, memory, and Puerto Rican colonization into LALIFF. Premiering at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) on May 28 ...

Xochitl Gonzalez uses a nostalgic lens to make Last Night in Brooklyn abundant with possibility and uncertainty for its 2007 borough. At the beginning of the story, mid-twenties Alicia is learning ...

If you look up the center of the Brazilian city of Goiânia on Google Maps today, you will see that 57th Street bears a grim reminder in its name: “Cesium 137.” This denomination marks the place where, ...

I don’t usually rent the latest Batman movie within days of its release, and I tend to prioritize drama and culture over action when selecting a film. But I love culture being used as a source of ...

When Carnival first arrived in the Americas with the Portuguese, it was known as entrudo and consisted of spontaneous street gatherings around town. They were unorganized and included pranks – like ...

In 2025, we got a clearer picture of the place Latino talent holds in Hollywood today. Series like The Bear cemented that presence with complex main characters, like Liza Colón-Zayas’s Tina Marrero, a ...

You cannot talk West Texas oil and not include Latinos, period. Taylor Sheridan, creator of Landman, certainly leans into this idea for his immensely popular show. He does this even more so in the ...