In Patty Somlo’s first book---From Here to There And Other Stories---we encounter the Kafkan universe, lives governed by the unknown forces that act independently not only of the designs of society but sometimes of nature as well.

Poetry remains the refuge from the chaos of an over-stimulated world, where the illusions of celebrity can be had on FaceBook. The solitude of sorrow finds its apotheosis through the prism of poetry, and there is no better example than James R. Whitley’s The Goddess of Goodbye.

There’s a scene in the AMC miniseries Mad Men which is simultaneously metaphoric and analogous to Cecilia Urbina’s novel A Tuesday Like Today. One of the main characters, Betty Draper, a well-bred, well-educated and well-kept wife of the enigmatic Donald Draper, walks in on her house keeper, a black woman.

However, I found both Longing and Dying Unfinished similar to Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandrine Quartet, whose characters likewise seek the rebirth of their identity through their sexual instincts in the urban subterranean chaos of a morally conservative country.

In The Season of Love, Flavia Cosma attempts to show once again that unseen face of the world only a poet sees and to seek the extraordinary in the ordinary, the clear in the incomprehensible, and the

The role of Hispanics in American politics has garnered the attention of various interlocutors...

Alicia Kozameh's 259 Leaps, the Last Immortal could not have come to me at a better time...

For years, Echo has lived in the shadow of her mother's beauty: a tall, long-haired, long-legged beauty with the temperament of an angel.