Inmaculada Lara-Bonilla, Humanities Professor and Chief Editor of “Hostos Review,” holding a copy of the most recent number.

The Latin American Writers Institute (LAWI) at Hostos Community College proudly announces the publication of the 21st edition of Hostos Review / Revista Hostosiana. This multilingual journal continues its long tradition — begun in 2004 — of amplifying contemporary voices from Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States Latina/o/x community, and the broader Ibero-American diaspora.

Issue No. 21, titled “Landscapes of Humor/Parajes del humor,” is co-edited by Eduardo Machuca Torres, Santiago Vaquera‑Vásquez, and Inmaculada Lara‑Bonilla, Humanities Professor and Director of LAWI, and builds on journal’s commitment to rigorous, culturally rich, multilingual literary curation.

“The theme of the new issue recognizes humor as much more than mere amusement: as terrain and vantage point, as a tool for insight, resistance, and as a community building mode of expression across cultures and languages,” said Professor Lara-Bonilla. “Through poetry, essays, short fiction, and critical reflections written in English, Spanish, and Spanglish, contributors navigate terrains of hardship, complicity, and laughter, often addressing topics at the crossroads of language, culture, and power. In doing so, they offer fresh perspectives on how humor can highlight injustice, heal communities, and reaffirm dignity.”

The kaleidoscopic format and the careful editorial guidance of the collection invites readers to explore how humor shapes and reflects social conditions, institutions, and relationships based on power but also on love and solidarity. The journal continues thus to animate conversations that matter deeply.

By consistently publishing and promoting work by emerging and established Latinx, Caribbean, and Latin American authors, “Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana” fulfills the mission of LAWI and Hostos: to foster intercultural understanding, nurture artistic expression, and build literary bridges across the Americas.

The journal was established as a space to sustain high-quality publishing, to support literary creation that fosters cultural exchange across the Americas. Published annually, it features bilingual, monolingual, and multilingual issues, offering a rare and essential forum where language, thought, and literary expression intersect in ways that reflect dynamic realities of the Americas.

Issue No. 21 stands on the shoulders of previous landmark editions, each engaging with themes significant to Latinx and Latin American literatures: environmental mapping, cross-border identities, Afro-Caribbean dialogues, queer writing, diaspora voices, ancestry and the future, and more.

Availability and Purchase

Issue No. 21 of “Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana” is now available for browsing, reading, and download via the LAWI website. Print copies of current and past issues remain available for purchase through Hostos Community College.

Interested readers, libraries, and institutions can request copies or interviews with contributing authors and editors by contacting LAWI or the journal’s Chief Editor, Dr. Inmaculada Lara-Bonilla (ilarabonilla@hostos.cuny.edu).  

About LAWI

Founded in 1987 and based since 1992 at Hostos Community College, LAWI is committed to promoting Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latina/o/x, and Ibero-American literature and intellectual work. As Hostos’s central advocacy and service organization for Latino writers, LAWI offers publishing opportunities, organizes workshops, readings, and conferences, and nurtures a vibrant literary community in New York and beyond.

Through “Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana,” LAWI continues to build bridges between writers in the U.S. and their counterparts across the Americas, affirming the power of multilingual, multicultural literature to transform communities, discourse, and identity.