LiberArte

06/16/2025

We’re evolving. ✨

Beyond Borders Book Club is now LiberArte.

04/30/2025

Excited to read our friend ’s debut novel “Tiempo, Texas” for our May book club! 🕰️ Max will be joining us for this one. ♥️ Come through!

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Unwinding from the heart of a place called Tiempo, situated somewhere along the South Texas border, a wound throbs. In Tiempo, the memories of a city spill into existence. Here we are introduced to the manifold characters caught in the struggle: Luis Ruiz, who dreams of reuniting with his mother; Freddy Quintanilla, unable to confront his only lifeline to his family in Mexico; Araceli Lucio and her cursed progeny; El Rey and his demands for things to stay as they are. These intersecting lives bound by the absence of control populate the turnstile narrative running through Tiempo, Texas.

03/24/2025

Come hang out with us on April 26th for a discussion of “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands” by Kelly Lytle Hernandez!

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers―and American dissidents―to their cause. Determined to oust Mexico’s dictator, Porfirio Díaz, who encouraged the plunder of his country by U.S. imperialists such as Guggenheim and Rockefeller, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of U. S. authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime. The U.S. Departments of War, State, Treasury, and Justice as well as police, sheriffs, and spies, hunted the magonistas across the country. Capturing Ricardo Flores Magón was one of the FBI’s first cases.
But the magonistas persevered. They lived in hiding, wrote in secret code, and launched armed raids into Mexico until they ignited the world’s first social revolution of the twentieth century.

02/25/2025

Corrected date: March 22nd

MARCH READ! You’re invited to join us on March 18th for a discussion of The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book’s banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation’s recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city—a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book’s longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground.

Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country’s most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world—and our own souls—and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.

02/01/2025

BIRTHDAY COLLAB???

Guess who we’re celebrating in February? This month, we’re collaborating with Entre to celebrate the life and legacy of writer, philosopher, and activist Audre Lorde. Stay tuned for details

Join us on February 15th for a discussion of The Selected Works of Audre Lorde.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Self-described "black, le***an, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, q***r women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, q***r theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems—selected and introduced by one of our most powerful contemporary voices on race and gender, Roxane Gay.

01/08/2025

Join us on January 25th for a Books and Brews event at The Gremlin. Come hang out, enjoy free appetizers, and discover new books alongside fellow readers.

We’re asking everyone to bring 1 wrapped book to swap with another attendee 🙂 Nos vemos pronto!

01/01/2025

We're kicking off 2025 with a call for manuscripts!

Beyond Borders Books is seeking fiction and nonfiction manuscripts! We are seeking stories or literature that transcend national, ethnic, and geopolitical boundaries— also known as “fronterizo literature.”

Our submission window for the 2025 calendar year is January 1-February 14, 2025. All submissions are fee free.

Fiction includes: novels and short story collections
Nonfiction includes: essay collections, history, and memoirs

For more information, visit our website at https://www.beyond-borders-books.com/manuscripts

12/18/2024

Joel Corte's essay, “The Case for a Communal Frontera” from the Beyond Borders Literary Review: Volume 1 is up on our website! 🫱🏽‍🫲🏿

“Sure, we must be the change we want to see in the world, but more importantly, we should believe in the values we want to see in the world. Every person in our communities has a shared fate. Thus, it is essential to engage our communities in acts of solidarity.”

Joel Corte's "The Case for a Communal Frontera" was originally published in our inaugural literary journal. You can order the Beyond Borders Literary Review on our website.

12/02/2024

Our post-election read! Join us on December 21 for a discussion of “The Persuaders” by Anand Giridharadas.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Debates are framed in moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. Movements for justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the skeptical. And leaders who seek to forge coalitions are labeled sellouts.

The Persuaders is an insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens who are on the ground working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy. As the book’s subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while calling in those who don’t agree with them but just might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.

11/26/2024

“As I grew to understand the gifts of the earth, I couldn’t understand how “love of country” could omit recognition of the actual country itself. The only promise it requires is to a flag. What of the promises to each other and to the land?” — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass 🌎

We had a beautiful discussion yesterday. Thankful for familiar and new faces. ♥️ As we prepare to jump into 2025, we’re thinking about how to continue to use our gifts and learnings for the good of the planet and humanity. 🌿🫱🏽‍🫲🏿

Stay tuned for our December read.

11/22/2024

Our inaugural volume of the Beyond Borders Literary Review features short fiction, poetry, essays, photographs, and art from creative artists in the United States and Mexico. In this eclectic volume, readers will discover works on cultural heritage, memory, and time.

Order the inaugural issue of the Beyond Borders Literary Review.