Rubén Martínez is a professor of literature and writing at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author, most recently, of Desert America: A Journey Across Our Most Divided Landscape (Picador, 2013).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Shocked Silent
Rubén Martínez on the language we use after the Trump election....
Greening Justice: Can Disparate Actors Heed Pope Francis’s Call for Unity?
A new encyclical on climate change from Pope Francis unites spiritual, material, and moral visions of environmental justice....
A Tale of Two ’Hoods: A Rap on Silver Lake
Silver Lake: a correspondence....
Improbable Journey
Colonialist, slaveholder, slave, prisoner, storyteller, Moor....
Endless Mourning: Rubén Martínez on Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman's latest mourns the catastrophe of the endless drug war....
Desert Pilgrimage
Richard Rodriguez was the Chicano Chicanos loved to hate....
