Although Donald Trump began his first electoral campaign by notoriously claiming that Mexicans were rapists, he managed early on to gain significant Latin American and Latinx support. In fact, already in the 2016 election Trump received more support (28%) from these groups than the previous Republican candidate Mitt Romney (27%). […]
I. So there I was, almost at the crossroad Stuck in a sudden storm of bikers, men in leather, engines snarling. Flags spurt skywards. I froze at the metal barricade, the seam of sense unpicked, Brown body splayed. In the aftermath of light, what proof is there of love— Buoyancy […]
An interview Essay with Victor LaValle I first met Victor Lavalle in a Dunkin’ Donuts in Washington Heights (NYC) during the time he was drafting what would become his award-winning novel The Changeling. He was writing there, he told me, because it had just the right amount and kind of […]
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