The Literary Bronx

Peggy Robles-Alvarado: The Courage of a Bronx Latina Poet

By Zayna Palmer | In the poetry collection Conversations with My Skin (2011), Peggy Robles-Alvarado shares her resilient story of

By Tiffany Londono | In Liz Murray’s memoir Breaking Night (2010), the author gives a vivid portrait of her life

By Davaughn M. Riley | “The Bronx been burning and you’re all pr-pr-prone to Alzheimer’s!” (Quiñones, “The Get Down,” 1:28).

By Sara LaMattina | If you’ve ever heard of Hunts Point in the Bronx, New York, there’s a good chance

By Sana Naeem | Going back to the 1970s, the Bronx, especially the southern part of the borough, was looked

By J. Rowland | The best people grew up in the Bronx. Okay… maybe that was a bit too broad

By Jeremy Forbes | Local residents and people all around the world have identified the Bronx as the city’s “worst”

By Faydelin Stoddart-Smith | In the early twentieth century, a human was exhibited in the same cage as monkeys in

By Hardik Yadav | In a tense moment early in Tom Wolfe’s satirical novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987),

By Maritza Lopez | Orchard Beach, also known as the Bronx or Puerto Rican Riviera, is a man-made beach situated