Magical and Exiled Urbanisms in Miami

November 25, 2024.Reading time 23 minutes.

Editors note: This is our final entry in our theme month on The Latinx City. You can see all other entries for the theme month here. Additionally, readers interested in more on Miami can see other posts on the city published at The Metropole here. By Daniel Richter In 1987, Joan Didion published her book […]

Latinx Entrepreneurs in Philadelphia – A Legacy of Resilience and Growth

November 20, 2024.Reading time 21 minutes.

Editor’s note: This is the fourth post in our theme for November, The Latinx City. By Stephanie Rivera-Kumar Philadelphia, one of the oldest cities in the United States, has a vibrant history shaped by immigrant contributions that continue to affect its neighborhoods and economy. In recent years, Latinx immigrants from countries such as the Dominican […]

Creature of the Night: A Review of “Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham”

November 18, 2024.Reading time 20 minutes.

David J. Goodwin. Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. Reviewed by Peter C. Baldwin The horror fiction of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, which sends delightful chills down the spines of his many fans, draws its power from its monsters and creepy settings, not from human characters. Lovecraft’s florid prose […]

The Metropole Bookshelf: Writing the Golden State: the New Literary Terrain of California

November 14, 2024.Reading time 13 minutes.

The Metropole Bookshelf is an opportunity for authors of forthcoming or recently published books to let the UHA community know about their new work in the field. Other entries in the series can be viewed here. By Romeo Guzmán I’m a historian who is weary of origin stories. In presenting Writing the Golden State: the New […]

The “World City” at Work: How Street Vendors Transformed Global L.A.

November 13, 2024.Reading time 29 minutes.

Editor’s note: This is the third post in our theme for November, The Latinx City. By David Helps Jorge Cruz Cortes was still a teenager when the Los Angeles Police Department arrested him for selling household goods without a license in 1989. The eighteen-year-old from Oaxaca, Mexico had been in L.A. long enough to know […]

Chicago Americans: The City of the Second Generation

November 6, 2024.Reading time 20 minutes.

Editor’s note: This is the second post in our theme for November, The Latinx City. By Andres Villatoro A friend from graduate school recently visited Chicago for the first time ever to present at a large annual academic conference. As an international student from Santiago, Chile and a lover of cities, I was excited for […]