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From The New Yorker: A personal history about a childhood in Los Angeles in close proximity to an infamous assassin--and some basic lessons about prejudice and perception.
For the New York Times Sunday Book Review, I wrote the Los Angeles entry for the review's Read Your Way Around the World series. My essay celebrates Los Angeles as a literary metropolis.
For Harper's Magazine, I wrote of my journey across the United States in the wake of a presidential election, travelling to Latino communities from Oregon to New Mexico to Georgia to Miami and New York.
My piece for The New Yorker, on Latinos, Trump and "the souls of brown folk."
For The New York Times: A celebration of the "diaspora renaissance," flowering of culture from immigrant communities.
A meditation on the portrayal of the modern Latino experience in U.S. mass media.
For The New Yorker, a 12,000-word excerpt from Deep Down Dark on the Copiapó mine disaster
On the same day Donald Trump was elected, California voters resurrected bilingual education.
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