Published by Cornell University Press in 2019 and awarded the 2019 American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th and 21st Centuries), Stephanie Malia Hom’s Empire’s Mobius Strip: His…
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May 21, 2020Glass I am floating inside a blinding white box, suspended in the sky. As I lean against the wide window overlooking the city, my forehead touches the ice-cold surface, and I pull…
November 21, 2017Seth Michelson / Courtesy of Washington & Lee UniversityIn October 2017 nonprofit press Settlement House released Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention…
October 4, 2017Fatou Diome / Courtesy of frenchculture.orgFatou Diome, a Senegalese migrant to France, turns her hand to nonfiction in her 2017 pre-election polemic, Marianne porte plainte! Identité nationale: D…
February 6, 2017Geoff Livingston, “America Is a Land of Immigrants,” Dulles International Airport, January 28, 2017Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal used to say that he drew his worldview from a dry cleaner’s slip he came…
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November 21, 2012Photo Flickr/NedraI“Thanks-giving,” said Mr. K., my seventh-grade English teacher. “Repeat after me: Thanksgiving.”“Ssshthanks give in,” I said, but the word tumbled and hissed, turning my mouth into…
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