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Immigrants

Into Africa

By Howard W. French, from China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, published this month by Knopf. French is a former New York…

Othello’s Son

by Frederic Morton,

A racial education

The Way of All Flesh

by Ted Conover,

Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse

This Land Is Not Your Land

by Ted Genoways,

Deciding who belongs in America

They Came Out Like Ants!

by William T. Vollmann,

Searching for the Chinese tunnels of Mexicali

Teach your children good

by Harper’s Staff,

Clearing customs

by Harper’s Staff,

Nous sommes tous Americains

Translated by John Howe,

Mi casa no es su casa

Translated by Roger D. Hodge,

Finding Palestine

by Anton Shammas,

Where worlds collide

by Pico Iyer,

In Los Angeles International Airport, the future touches down