Re-Visiting West Side Story
Do I Really Need the Pain Again? For me, re-visiting Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story was like re-visiting a family member whom you…
Read MoreDo I Really Need the Pain Again? For me, re-visiting Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story was like re-visiting a family member whom you…
Read More“What’s in a name,” Juliet asks, as she contemplates the destructive rivalry between the Capulets and the Montagues. She reasons it shouldn’t matter…
Read MoreIn this installment of P.B.U. Journal, we take a look at the Walter Mercado documentary, Puerto Rican Superheroes, an exhibition of contemporary comic…
Read MoreI live in upstate New York, twenty miles from the Canadian border. Moving up here, my family and I knew we would have…
Read MoreIn this entry of P.B.U. journal, the Latino Book Review and The Lit. Bar, two valuable Latinx resources. The Latino Book Review is…
Read MoreIn Al Dia, Beatriz Garcia writes on the latest casualty of what she calls the Jeanine Cummins Syndrome. You might remember the latter…
Read MoreThis is the launching of P.B.U. Journal. Here, we search the web for tidbits on happenings and news from the Post Barrio Universe….
Read MoreThere are always sociocultural and political forces behind the birth of any book. Given the scarcity of Latinx books that realization becomes more…
Read MoreYou can trace the verse novel’s roots to epics such as Gilgamesh and the Odyssey. Although a clear narrative form, the epic still…
Read MoreLike any intelligently written book, this one raises critical questions about its subject matter. In this case, why do we continue to approach love from archaic, patriarchy-driven tropes and myths? Especially, when they often fail our expectations and women are usually left with more than the loneliness.
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