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Every Separation Is a Link: A Conversation with Yanara Friedland

  • Selah Saterstrom
  • October 15, 2021
Yanara Friedland discusses her book-length essay GROUNDSWELL.
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Turning Purple: The Borderland

  • Leigh Hopkins
  • August 5, 2019
What we have most in common is that we don’t know the truth.
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Closing Nazareth: On Shelter

  • Honora Spicer
  • May 14, 2019
We stood with the open-handed absence which finally allowed for a telling.
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They Prefer People to Die: On Trump, Borders, and Racism

  • Gris Muñoz
  • June 23, 2018
A good man doesn’t leave someone to die in the desert, and when he uses God’s name, he does it to bless, not to kill.
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Strawberry Field

  • Yoojin Grace Wuertz
  • June 22, 2018
To pick a strawberry, one must crouch.
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TORCH: Over the Borderline

  • Harmony Hazard
  • October 19, 2017
I'm writing about the border through the eyes of children because the border is a problem of the imagination.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • July 15, 2016
It’s July, and the summer issues of literary magazines are rolling off both the physical and cyber presses, including Virginia Quarterly Review, which this week shared a story from its…
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