Kelly Lytle Hernández

Oct 24, 2023 | foreignaffairs.com | Kelly Lytle Hernández |Richard Feinberg |Albert Camus

In This Review In This Review Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the BorderlandsWilliam F. Buckley, Sr.: Witness to the Mexican Revolution, 1908–1922Two recent books offer sharply contrasting perspectives on the Mexican Revolution, one of the most bloody and consequential upheavals of the early twentieth century.

Sep 11, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Hilary Leichter |Jamel Brinkley |Kelly Lytle Hernández |Angie Kim

Amerie’s Book ClubThe book: Terrace Story by Hilary LeichterOur reviewer says: "The delightful sophomore effort from Leichter expands on her National Magazine Award–winning story about a magic closet by adding multiple timelines that stretch into the future.... Leichter soars with this cogent yet dreamlike tale." Read more.

Aug 22, 2023 | altaonline.com | Kelly Lytle Hernández

They lit the pyre and watched him burn. Antonio Rodríguez, a twenty-year-old ranch hand, murdered a white woman, they said. White men from nearby farms formed a posse to track him down, while the other residents of Rocksprings, Texas, some four hundred of them, met at the edge of town and piled kindling at the base of a mesquite tree. The posse soon arrived, with a cowboy in the lead, dragging Rodríguez by a lasso looped around his neck.

Aug 19, 2023 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Kelly Lytle Hernández

In her eye-opening Bad Mexicans, Kelly Lytle Hernández seeks to raise awareness of this connection through her account of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920. There was, in fact, a considerable U.S. component to the revolution: U.S. officials and capitalists were complicit in driving Mexican discontent, while the revolution was planned in large part by Mexican exiles here (the term “Bad Mexicans” was coined by then Mexican president Porfirio Díaz to describe these exiles).

May 8, 2023 | altaonline.com | Kelly Lytle Hernández

Hernández, the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur “genius” grant and a professor at UCLA, has been called a “rebel historian.” That’s not a judgment but a badge of honor, and it resonates throughout her work.