Fiction Pick of the Week: "Green Frog"
An artist struggles with family loss and complexities.
Great articles, every Saturday.
An artist struggles with family loss and complexities.
Gina Chung Split Lip Magazine Aug 2020 10min Permalink
The long struggle for workers’ rights at poultry plants is now more urgent than ever
Mya Frazier The Guardian Apr 2020 20min Permalink
A childhood poster catalyzes complex doubts about a marriage.
Weike Wang Gulf Coast Magazine Mar 2020 15min Permalink
A lawsuit against Harvard forces students to choose sides.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 45min Permalink
Inside the effort to prevent migrant deaths at the US-Mexico border.
Eric Reidy IRIN Nov 2018 25min Permalink
Every month, thousands of deportees from the United States and hundreds of asylum-seekers from around the world arrive in Tijuana. Many never leave.
Daniel Duane California Sunday May 2018 25min Permalink
The hot dog black market and the immigrants it exploits.
Jeff Koyen Crain's Jun 2016 15min Permalink
The dilemma of providing quality health care for undocumented immigrants, and how one city is attempting to solve it.
Ricardo Nuila VQR Jan 2015 35min Permalink
Tony Ma will bet you as much as $600,000 to train your student for college acceptance. If the student gets into their top choice school, Ma takes the cash. Rejected? He gets nothing.
Peter Waldman Businessweek Sep 2014 15min Permalink
Russian immigrant parents attempt to visit their troubled son in a mental hospital.
"He excludes real people from the conspiracy, because he considers himself to be so much more intelligent than other men. Phenomenal nature shadows him wherever he goes. Clouds in the staring sky transmit to each other, by means of slow signs, incredibly detailed information regarding him. His in- most thoughts are discussed at nightfall, in manual alphabet, by darkly gesticulating trees. Pebbles or stains or sun flecks form patterns representing, in some awful way, messages that he must intercept. Everything is a cipher and of everything he is the theme."
Vladimir Nabokov The New Yorker May 1948 10min Permalink
A profile of the Bronx immigrant family on the other end of your Chinese takeout menu.
Kevin Heldman Capital New York Oct 2011 20min Permalink