In New Mexico, cultural appropriation by newcomers is fueling Indigenous activism over colonialism and property rights.
2018
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story
The Word ‘Hole’
The first page was blank. On the second page, in an almost illegible calligraphic script, was written “Manifesto for a House in the Sky.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Green Green Grass of Utah
Growth advocates in St. George, Utah want a billion-dollar pipeline to support a rising population. Conservationists don’t.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Few Words about Fake Breasts
Nell Boeschenstein, writing almost seven years after her prophylactic mastectomy, examines how breasts — whether real or fake, attached to or removed from their original owner — carry an overabundance of personal and cultural meaning.
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
A New Citizen Leaves a Lost America
Journalist Rebecca Mead explains why she first left England for the United States, and why she’s now moving back to a country that isn’t necessarily home.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
Finding Time to Write Even During the Busiest of Times
How Jami Attenberg helped form a supportive online literary community with #1000WordsofSummer.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Manifest Destiny-Lite With Souvenirs: Why Assholes in Turquoise Are Flooding the Southwest
“You can’t waltz into a pueblo and say, ‘I’m here so you can tell me about your religion.’”
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A New Citizen Decides to Leave the Tumult of Trump’s America
As American values shifted, and the New York that she loved changed, one naturalized citizen found herself changing too, so she and her family decided to return to her native England even though it was no longer home.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Story
Defeating the Celluloid Axis
The invisible language of film permeates Christian Kracht’s “The Dead,” prose that is neutral and shot through with so much darkness, you occasionally can’t find the light.
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Giving Up the Ghost
After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.