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Over the Line
… Patrol’s practice of running permanent and temporary checkpoints within the 100-mile-zone, as well as the agency’s … said Mitra Ebadolahi, a staff attorney with the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties’ Border Litigation Project. … zone. Terry Bressi, an Arizona resident who has run a website chronicling his interactions with DHS agents since …
Purely Platonic
… may call it ‘nonsense’ if you like, but I’ve heard nonsense compared with which that would be as sensible as a … Every great author has his individuality, but he has also his kinships with others. Books, like their writers, … any body at all, it is making for itself all the time new bodies, changing with the times. It is this power of …
Criticism
Wild Imperatives in Character and Prose
… late 1980’s–1990’s “domesticity”—a murky, often sexualized complex of rituals and kin. Importantly, the net of language is never … A preoccupation with the physical details of each other’s bodies and a kind of somatic dullness created by proximity and …
Growing Up Progressive
… My casual clothes and hair meant that I was much more comfortable in classes like “arts and crafts.” “Creativity” … of sneaking out after “lights out” to pee in the fragrant balsam copse behind the tents. The camp was set in the middle … in the school, I also lived there, and we all ate, studied, and played there. A handful of older boys lived with a …
The Green Room, Spring 1981
… Yet what will a bomb with a bigger bang actually accomplish? Very little beyond global suicide, argues Bernard … traveled extensively throughout Europe. Foreign policy is also the subject of James A. Nathan’s essay, but rather than … policy. He has a doctoral degree in international studies from Johns Hopkins University and has studied abroad at …
Fiction
The Little Blue Horses
… her mother lived in a large town that was on its way to becoming a small city. On her way to school, Rochelle often … to blink the future into being through their cryptic rituals and consecrated tools; hammers and so forth, chalices … did not slacken before it ceased. When Rochelle’s mother died, Rochelle was willed the house and everything that lay …