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How I Wrote Certain of My (Fake) Poems

By Lucy Ives June 14, 2019

The author of Loudermilk reflects on “the weirdest form of history writing” she's ever done.

Lit World

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Bead, Bed, and Alley

By T Fleischmann May 30, 2019

On a trip to Berlin, the spin of the moon, and the generosity of the artist

Family & Relationships

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Nugrybauti

By Joel Mowdy April 24, 2019

In Lithuania, going astray while picking mushrooms is a common experience, with its own word. The same word is used to describe veering from the plot of a story—like my father did when he talked about his time in Vietnam.

Family & Relationships

EssayLives

Dancing Alvin Ailey’s Revelations in Black and Brown

By Jamila Wilkinson March 15, 2019

How can I perform a story that isn’t mine to tell?

Arts & CultureRace

EssayLives

An Apex of Babble

By John Sperry March 6, 2019

I grew up in a community where the phenomenon of speaking in tongues (called glossolalia by linguists) is more than just some loaves-and-fishes Sunday School curiosity.

Religion

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What Remains

By Jacqueline Alnes February 21, 2019

How can I write a history of myself without remembering? And why am I compelled to?

AmericasBodies & Nature

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New Series: Rewriting the West

By Adriana Gallardo, Michelle García, Fernanda Santos, Raúl Ramos, and Carolina A. Miranda February 19, 2019

Reconsidering the origin stories and mythologies of Los Angeles, Texas, Arizona, the Alamo, and a family.

Rewriting the West

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Death of a Dream

By Michelle García February 19, 2019

As demographics shift, Latinos in Texas are claiming the majority and seeing themselves in the center of the national story.

Rewriting the West AmericasHistoryPolitics

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The Alamo is a Rupture

By Raúl Ramos February 19, 2019

It’s time to reckon with the true history of the mythologized Texas landmark—and the racism and imperialism it represents.

Rewriting the West AmericasGovernmentHistoryPolitics

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Remapping LA

By Carolina A. Miranda February 19, 2019

Before California was West, it was North and it was East: the uppermost periphery of the Mexican Empire, and the arrival point for Chinese immigrants making the perilous journey from Guangdong.

Rewriting the West AmericasHistoryRace

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“The Best Kind of People”: Shifting Definitions of Citizenship and the Making of Arizona

By Fernanda Santos February 19, 2019

For a century, Anglos from cold corners of the country have been lured here by the promise that this was a place where they could live among their own, in communities with nary a brown person in sight.

Rewriting the West AmericasHistoryPolitics