Author Héctor Tobar is not surprised by the recent spate of measures to restrict diversity and inclusion efforts in education. “There are a lot of people who are threatened by Latinos when they are ...

The nation's growing Hispanic population constitutes a "Latin Republic of the United States," contends this engrossing survey of Latino America. Pulitzer Prize– winning journalist Tobar chronicles the ...

In his new book, Héctor Tobar tries to pin down an inherently slippery concept. “To be Latino in the United States,” Tobar writes, “is to see yourself portrayed, again and again, as an intellectually ...

A quarter of the way through Héctor Tobar’s novel, his young, blond protagonist stands on the edge of National Highway Number 9 in Chile, thumb pointed south in hopes of hitching a ride. Drivers speed ...

What does it mean to be Latino? Author Hector Tobar took a 9,000-mile road trip across the country last winter exploring exactly that. In an essay for Harper’s and a forthcoming book, “A Migrant’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "We need to find new ways of being in solidarity," says Héctor Tobar, whose latest book, "Our Migrant Souls," examines Latino ...

In 1982, a reporter for The New York Times, Raymond Bonner, spent two weeks in the rebel-controlled mountains of Morazán, El Salvador, documenting the lives of guerrilla fighters. Spurred by ...

The Kirkus Prize, a leading literary award, has been awarded this year to authors Ariel Aberg-Riger, Héctor Tobar and James McBride. The prize selects winners in the categories of fiction, nonfiction ...

A new book explores the Latino experience and identity in modern America. "Our Migrant Souls" by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor Héctor Tobar draws on his own experience as the son of ...

Héctor Tobar is a Los Angeles-born author and journalist. His books include the novels “The Tattooed Soldier” and “The Barbarian Nurseries,” which won the California Book Award Gold Medal for fiction.