Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands and Edges Everywhere
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Desert Rain Magic
“Juneau, Alaska—Avalanche the day I was born, wiped out a third of town.
El Paso, Texas—Cockroaches, dark hall, three mean drunks. Drought. Flood.” – Lucia Berlin, two entries from her list/essay The Trouble with All the Houses I’ve Lived...
Juárez Was a Treat
This essay originally appeared on March 11, 2025.
Juárez was a treat. Juárez was Kahlua and cream after dinner at Chihuahua Charlie’s, even if you were only eight. Juárez was aunts and uncles and friends visiting from far away, and bingein...
Contemporary Art in Our Sister Cities
The 8th Border Biennial, spanning two museums and two countries, opened in early September, and focuses on “imagining” the border. Themes of identity, erasure, surveillance, violence, and resilience were prevalent. Curators Alejandro Morale...
On Western Migration
Samuel Colman, A Covered Wagon
This past week, I read Hernan Diaz’s captivating 2017 novel, In the Distance, a historical Western about a Swede who mistakenly arrives in California instead of New York and, separated from his brother, sets...
If I Grow Old
“You are old, Father William,” the young man said,
“And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head-
Do you think, at your age, it is right?” –Lewis Caroll, start of a poem within “Alice's Adventures in...
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Notes from the Beautiful Periphery: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands and Edges Everywhere
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