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An Emptiness Yet to Come

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor

The Sad Ballad of Wyckoff

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor

The Harvest

By Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

Anna Bruno: Suspense, Secular Gods, and Scandal in an Elite Catholic School

Maria Kuznetsova Interviews Anna Bruno

Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea is the award-winning author of thirteen books, including The Hummingbird’s Daughter, The Devil’s Highway, and Into the Beautiful North. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an American mother, Luis draws on the themes of borders, immigration, and the search for love and belonging in his work. A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction, he’s won the Kiriyama Prize (2006), the Lannan Award (2002), an American Book Award (1999), and was named to the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. Urrea lives with his family in Naperville, IL, and is a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Class in America: The Fault Lines Lives ClassRace

Ghosts in the Land of Plenty

By Luis Alberto Urrea June 16, 2014

I always seek out the maids. I always want to help the janitors sweep. My wife says I have a Jesus complex. What I have is a class issue.

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