Susan Suntree’s previous books include Wisdom of the East: Stories of Compassion, Inspiration, and Love; Rita Moreno; and Eye of the Womb. She taught for many years at East Los Angeles College. Sacred Sites (Nebraska, 2010) is now available in paperback for the … Continue reading From the Desk of Susan Suntree: Revisiting Sacred Sites
Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks … Continue reading Bad Tourist coming this October
BOOKS Some Are Always Hungry by Jihyun Yun Praise from Publishers Weekly: “In this excellent debut, Yun lingers over descriptions in precise and evocative language.” The Spanish Craze: America’s Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779-1939 by Richard L. Kagan Review … Continue reading News and Reviews
New this Month: In the New Hispanisms Series, Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa: A Retrospective (Nebraska, 2020) offers readers an opportunity to learn about Vargas Llosa’s body of work through multiple perspectives: his own and those of eminent fiction … Continue reading Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa
Congratulations to Ignacio López-Calvo and Victor Valle, editors of Latinx Writing Los Angeles! Their book is a finalist in the Best Nonfiction – Multi-Author category in the International Latino Book Awards. This year the awards ceremony will be held virtually … Continue reading International Latino Book Award Finalist
This month Justice in Plain Sight: How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America’s Courtrooms (Nebraska, 2019) is available as a paperback edition for the first time. Justice in Plain Sight is the story of a hometown newspaper in … Continue reading New in Paperback
The following is an excerpt from Art Effects: Image, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia (Nebraska, 2020) by Carlos Fausto, translated by David Rodgers. Introduction: The Smirk There used to be a time when we knew. We used to believe that … Continue reading Excerpt: Art Effects
The following is an excerpt from Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Fifth Edition, (Nebraska, 2020) by Joseph Siegman. Lipman “Lip” Pike United States Born: May 25, 1845, New York, New York Died: October 10, 1893 … Continue reading Excerpt: Jewish Sports Legends
Patrick J. O’Banion is a former professor of history. He now teaches church history around the world with Training Leaders International. He is the author of This Happened in My Presence: Moriscos, Old Christians, and the Spanish Inquisition in the Town of … Continue reading From the Desk of Patrick J. O’Banion: Why Locals Matter
BOOKS Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic by Lawrence Venuti Review in the Los Angeles Review of Books: “…many of us who teach world literature encourage our students to think about translators as interpretive cocreators whose agency can be felt in … Continue reading News and Reviews
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