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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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  • TORCH

TORCH: Movement, Its Depictions, and Two-Way Tickets

  • Shastri Akella
  • November 21, 2017
The experience of migration lies not in binaries—pleasure-pain and triumph-catastrophe—but rather, like life itself, it resides in the space in between.
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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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Spaces of Exception vs. Spaces of Redemption: The Films of Ana Lily Amirpour

  • Caroline Tracey
  • August 24, 2017
Diasporic communities live inside a host nation, but they also live with difference.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • November 15, 2016
A bookstore in Wyoming has banned laptops and cell phones so customers can live like its 1993. The former headquarters of Borders Bookstores has become a tech hub. Can bookstores…
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We Tell Ourselves Stories to Tell Ourselves Stories

  • Theodora Messalas
  • October 28, 2016
It’s not like we can all launch a Kickstarter or write a book—there’ve been hundreds of books about the border, and we still have the same problem. So I get…
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Drawing a Line

  • Theodora Messalas
  • May 13, 2016
Because borders are so weird, words proliferate. Along with arbitrary, nonsensical violence—and strange, unpredictable exceptions—people talk a lot and lots of papers get filed, even as all of it is,…
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“Borders” and Brand Controversy

  • Liz Wood
  • January 21, 2016
MIA’s video for “Borders” is controversial in many ways: it’s full of refugee imagery, MIA rapping in the middle of boats packed with bodies. But its biggest backlash comes from what seems…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • October 27, 2015
Hong Kong is dominated by two kinds of bookstores—the independent shops specializing in political books and pornography banned by China and the shops secretly owned by Beijing’s communist government. A…
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Borders Bookstore and Sharia Law

  • Ian MacAllen
  • January 7, 2015
Borders bookstores might have withered away in bankruptcy stateside, but internationally the store continues to operate, and the chain is at the center of a censorship dispute. Melville House reports…
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The Return of the Indie Bookstore

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 26, 2013
Could Amazon actually be helping indie bookstores? It seems counterintuitive, but after a devastating reduction in numbers in the late ’90s, the American Booksellers’ Association has finally started to grow—albeit…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

  • Seth Fischer
  • December 6, 2009
I was out last week on vacation, but I’m back. And there’s a lot to catch up on. Here goes … In Turkey, you can go to jail for using…
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