In increasingly hostile times, voices that remind us why we fight are vital. Like that of María Lugones, who was mentor to our author, the Caribbean writer and anti-colonial thinker Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso.

Encounters between a non-practising Hindu and Roman Catholicism

Family trees are an endlessly interesting subject for many, but a look at the different language families is equally as informative

What do we remember if not islands? In literature, film and real life too. And it's not only the narrative that matters.

More and more people fear that humanity is facing the collapse of civilization due to climate change and other crises. Some books can help us to better understand what may be in store for us

How Misunderstanding is Essential to the Longevity of Two Filipino Literary Masterpieces

What does it mean to be a Palestinian in the diaspora, an outsider who can only contemplate his homeland from his hereditary exile through the characters in his novels? A homeland of fading words, images and stories

On the power of social media, election campaigns, the USA as a failed immigration country and migrant paradoxes

The moods of different languages and the corresponding moods of the speakers

What else does a black female writer have to do in this world? What does she do with the rage that consumes her when she is again marginalized or used as "the attraction" for show? And what does she do with her throbbing shame?