Adriana E. Ramírez

Mockery comes easily; the harder work is figuring out what to do for the people at the center of the story.

A nation has at least one crucial moment in every cycle of its history—a moment in which a hope is extinguished for a generation—the kind of rare moment that defines its history and the memory of i…

As a child, I once asked my grandmother why she did not forgive or forget, given her fierce Catholicism. We were playing cards on the bed in her large, white bedroom in Barranquilla, surrounded by …

A pair of African American brothers takes a wild chance on immortality.

A Native child goes missing. What happens to the family in the aftermath?

Some of our favorite critics offer suggestions for the latest (and up-and-coming!) titles to transport you, whether you’re basking at the beach or hanging in the hammock.

To call “After Sappho” a novel is to push the definition of “a novel” right to the window without technically going completely outside. It is unpredictable in form and mercurial in its structure. But it remains enthralling.

There are no good men in “If I Survive You,” the captivating debut collection of interlinked short stories by Jonathan Escoffery. There are men who hustle, men who disillusion their women, and men who lie — to themselves as much as others. There are complicated men. There are men who leave.

In Megan Giddings’s “The Women Could Fly,” children are taught in schools how to identify an evil practitioner of the magical arts — usually female, definitely nonconformist, and fiercely independent — so that they may report possible offenders to the state’s hot line.

The rent is about to go up for the tenants of Banneker Terrace, and for the low-income residents of this Harlem high-rise, the increase spells disaster. In Sidik Fofona's debut, "Stories From the Tenants Downstairs," everyone has a voice.

I did it, and I feel great.

Destiny is the villain of Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s latest novel, “Woman of Light,” and there is no better antagonist. For three generations of women in the Lopez family, an inescapable past and inevitable future have shaped their lives, but Luz Lopez wants to change all that.

Whether your summer plans include beaches or backyards, exploration or relaxation, you’ll need something juicy and absorbing to read. We asked some of our favorite critics to recommend the best summer reads, a blend of old and new books you can bring along with you — and that just might transport you when you do.

With most bookstores and libraries still closed, some are turning to the neighborhood boxes, others avoiding the risk. Jay Duplass is on the fence.

The original idea for the Super Bowl XXVI halftime show starred two Olympians, Brian Boitano and Dorothy Hamill, skating on Teflon. The theme was “Winter Magic: A Salute to the Winter Olympics.” It was 1992, and CBS had the rights to the Winter

These immigration stories explore our shared history — a reading list for all ages

In the novel, we find women, with bodies, with desires, with doubts. The revolutionary figure, when mythologized, is not human, but political desire made manifest. In complicating the Mirabal siste…

(I gave these remarks at the National Hispanic Institute’s annual conference Celebración on November 3rd, 2018) I completely reject the Latino essentialism and individualistic exceptionalism …

Adriana E. Ramírez, who has a newborn and a book due, takes us inside the mind of a writer who is very, very tired. And also pumping.