In Europe and the US the migratory surge of the last decade has provoked profound institutional and political crises. It has overwhelmed existing systems for processing undocumented immigrants ...
On December 20, 2018 / By John McClureI dreamt I was in a small cabin on an island and I was writing page after page. The words poured out of me as if they had ...
On December 20, 2018 / By Jack HalberstamSometime in May, 2012, I was standing by a mass grave in a forest near Łopuchowo, Poland. I was seventeen and, along with many of my classmates, I ...
On December 20, 2018 / By Ben Libman“The issue isn’t just the crime of the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land, because a bigger crime followed—the crime of the imposition of silence on an ...
On December 20, 2018 / By Nora ParrAmericanata is an Italian noun. In the singular, it is pronounced American-ah-tah. The plural is Americanate, American-ah-tay. It is not known when, exactly, the word Americanata came into ...
On December 20, 2018 / By Mastura AlatasFans of HBO’s Sharp Objects or the Gillian Flynn novel of the same name will remember the story’s “woman in white”—a ghostly figure that has reportedly been seen ...
On December 20, 2018 / By Emily FosterOne day in August of 2016, my husband and I flew from Boston to Minneapolis, picked up a rental car, and set out for Spicer, Minn. The drive, ...
On September 17, 2018 / By M.J. AndersenMay Hawas’s compelling—and funny—essay “How Not to Write about Cosmopolitan Alexandria” exemplifies how to write about Alexandria. Hawas critiques how others have written about the city, its history, ...
On September 17, 2018 / By Deborah StarrIn early January 2014, some three months after the publication of my Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive, a British professor e-mailed me to say he was reviewing the book ...
On September 17, 2018 / By Hala HalimThere are people who are afraid of insects. If they think there is one insect in the house, they can’t sleep. It gets to the point where they ...
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