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INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW WITH YEIRO MUÑOZ REGARDING EL MENSAJE PERDIDO
Santi—also known as Lobito, or Lobo—witnesses a murder and discovers a scrap of paper at the crime scene featuring a message written in a seemingly indecipherable language. This paper becomes a unifying and central element of the Continue reading...

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NEWS
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - 2026 PRINT EDITION
Latino Book Review invites submissions for its 2026 print edition, to be released in the summer of 2026. We welcome original work from Latinx writers and artists across the globe. Submissions are now open! We are welcoming original Continue reading...

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FICTION
PILLARS OF CREATION | CARLOS NICOLÁS FLORES
Don’t be fooled or frightened by the high-falutin’ title of this novel--Pillars of Creation—or the subtitle--A Quest for the Great Name in a Nietzschean World. Yes, that interstellar image is important to main character Yoltic Cortez’s thinking, Continue reading...

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POETRY
ANTHEM OF EVAPORATED TEARS | XAVIER VALCÁRCEL DE JESÚS
​The tears are evaporated now in Xavier Valcárcel de Jesús’s poem, but they have flowed from the stream of unrequited love as far back as Garcilaso de la Vega’s Eclogue I where Salicio says, "Salid, sin duelo, lágrimas, corriendo." ​Continue reading...

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