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Manhattan Magic

The incongruity is the fascination of it all. In New York, the most modern of all large cities, the very embodiment of twentieth-century youth, thrives superstition, gray with countless centuries…

Loss in Translation

by Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas,

From “Unspeakable Pain,” which was published in the Spring 2022 issue of The Yale Review. “I am Dr. Smith,” I say. “I am Dr. Jones.” For five hours a day,…

Home Country

by Héctor Tobar,

What does it mean to be Latino?

The King in Queens

by Ly Tran,

From House of Sticks, a memoir, which will be published this month by Scribner. Seven o’clock on a Saturday morning, a few years after my family left Vietnam for Ridgewood,…

Narco in Chief

by Andrew Cockburn,

How America enables corruption in Honduras

Going Home Again

by Theodore Ross,

The Vietnamese overseas return

The Border We All Cross

by Helen Mackreath,

A Turkish cemetery houses bodies lost at sea

The Fruits of Suffering

by Brandon Shimoda,

From descriptions of dreams in The Grave on the Wall, a memoir by Brandon Shimoda, out this month from City Lights. The book is an elegy for the author’s grandfather…

All the Nothing

by Gertrude A. Zerr,

Maggie had nothing in the world but Mike and the twins and the other two little boys, none of whom could be considered anything of an asset. Mike had landed…

Hawks and Doves

by Jason Novak,

Scenes of family detention centers in the United States juxtaposed with illustrations of mourning doves migrating from Central America to Canada.

Front Runner

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Marine Le Pen’s campaign to make France great again