The Ordinary Seaman, the second novel from acclaimed writer Francisco Goldman is a lyrical and spellbinding story of hope, despair, and the promise of love. The ordinary seaman is Esteban, a 19-year-old veteran of the war in Nicaragua, who has come to America with 14 other men to form the crew of...
Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala’s leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two days after the presentation of a groundbreaking church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and disappearances of some two hundred thousand civi...
Fatigue like a hand inside an old soft leather glove, softly gripping my brain, the discernible pressure of its twitching fingers. Waking at around three or four in the morning, and instead of just desperately staring into the dark, slipping back into one snatch of dream or nightmare after anothe...
I don’t disbelieve that Moreno was shown the missing piece of video by somebody, or was at least told about it by somebody he trusted who’d seen it. I can certainly understand his reluctance to reveal these details, because whoever had showed it to him or told him about it, if identified, would c...
During her adolescence she gave handwriting lessons in its school for boys. When I was an infant, my grandparents and my mother brought me to the church of San Sebastián to be baptized. My mother married an American from a Jewish-Ukrainian immigrant family, and though I spent my early childhood b...