Five UCR Students Receive Pen & Honey Bookstore’s Second Annual Books & Sueños Scholarship
The Unworthy — A Testament to Survival and the Essential Nature of Literature
The narrator’s diary entries chart the endurance of psychological and physical torment, and the slow emergence of hope and shared belonging.
Monstrilio — On Nurturing Love From Grief and Finding Humanity in Horror
“...a grief-struck mother mourning over the body of her eleven-year-old son, Santiago, sets forth an exploration of grief’s physical manifestations by cutting off a piece of his lung, which she nurses into sentience and thereafter calls ‘M.’”
Latines Unfiltered: Why You Have More Power Than You Think
The issue I have is the assumption that, as Latinas, we couldn't possibly hold roles with more power, influence, or visibility.
The Spark Behind It All—A Review of Suzanne Collins’ Sunrise on the Reaping
…for every trivial fault in Sunrise on the Reaping, the novel’s ability to mobilize a new generation toward skepticism of systems, figures, and media—and away from implicit submission—redeems it tenfold.
Pen & Honey Bookstore Launches “Books & Sueños Scholarship” for UCR First-Generation College Students
Pen & Honey Bookstore launched the Books & Sueños Scholarship to cultivate equity through access and belonging. Awarded annually to exceptional students from marginalized backgrounds, the scholarship pairs monetary support with thoughtfully selected books that nurture personal growth and practical life skills.
All Bark—No Bite: A Review of Rachel Yoder’s “Nightbitch”
“…most women can see themselves represented in the novel and in Nightbitch — in her quiet resentment, intelligence and passion, and her exasperation at everything and everyone that stands before her.“
A Gateway Revolutionary Text — Wisam Rafeedie's Novel “The Trinity of Fundamentals”
A "fictionalized-narrative-of-life-in-hiding novel… belongs to the revolutionary realist school which does not stop at diagnosis, but seeks to agitate and bring about change."— Ahmad Qatamesh