In the Land of No Good Choices: Rereading Abraham Rodriguez’s Debut Collection Thirty Years On
Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.’s short-story collection The Boy without a Flag: Tales of the South Bronx (1992)—which this year celebrates its
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South Bronx
The Black Bronx: Realizing “A Dream Deferred”
Local residents and people all around the world have identified the Bronx as the city’s “worst” borough for decades. When
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A Spray-painted Response to Nuyorican Poetry in Hunts Point
If you’ve ever heard of Hunts Point in the Bronx, New York, there’s a good chance you associate it with
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Revisiting Tom Wolfe’s Bronx “Jungle”
In a tense moment early in Tom Wolfe’s satirical novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), Sherman McCoy speeds through
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