A new book on the political economy of shipping covers how the labor behind global supply chains has both transformed since post 9/11 securitization and remained brutally the same since shipping's earliest days.
lareviewofbooks: Jonathan Lethem, on his obsession with an immortal literary character. 1. There once was a boy who fell in love with Norman Mailer, a writer who…
Debating the blinkered Hollywood take on race in films like The Help and Rise of the Apes only helps perpetuate it Positive or negative, reviews of a new film…
Ash Wednesday: 8:30am, 2004/5 George Shaw’s Tile Hill paintings explore the daunting provisionality — and banality — of identity “A Sly and Unseen Day,” at the…
Through the shaky hand-held camcorder, it looks like a beautiful day on Maho Beach, located on the Dutch side of St. Maarten. Jets fly in low over the cerulean bay to clear the short runway. The lens points up to the sky; the sun bleaches the atmosphere, and a wave of gas shimmers off a
As a member of the Objectivist school, poet George Oppen sought to enact the materiality of language through simple phrasing and shorthand. His career includes…
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
