Interview with author of No Human is Illegal
J.J. Mulligan Sepúlveda, author of No Human is Illegal, appeared on In The Moment with Lori Walsh this week to discuss his new book and the national immigration debate. Read an… Read more »
Fall for the Book announces a new award for writing by immigrants
We are, as we always have been, a nation of immigration. According to Jie Zong, Jeanne Batalova, and Jeffrey Hallock of the Migration Policy Institute, almost 14% of all people living in America were… Read more »
The unbearable whiteness of immigration policy: How political expediency has shaped racial perceptions of Mexican immigrants
This week, the world looked on in shock, despair, and outrage as US Immigration and Customs Enforcement enacted a new immigration policy that can be described only as ghoulish, separating children,… Read more »
A Maine high school student is suing the NEA for the right to recite poetry
I am the Smoke King I am black! I am swinging in the sky, I am wringing worlds awry; I am the thought of the throbbing mills, I am the… Read more »
PEN World Voices participant Yassmin Abdel-Magied has been deported
The PEN World Voices Festival, an annual, weeklong celebration of international literature, kicked off last night. But among the 165 voices invited to participate, one writer was notably absent. According to John Maher… Read more »
Author who writes about tolerance and acceptance comes to US to talk about tolerance and acceptance, is detained at LAX
Celebrated Australian children’s author Mem Fox was detained by immigration officers at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month and “aggressively questioned about her visa status,” Nora Krug reports for… Read more »
Undocumented and #HereToStay
We live in dark times, and there is perhaps nothing darker about them than the ways immigrants to this country are being discussed and treated by the current administration and… Read more »
Read William Shakespeare’s handwritten plea for refugees
This year marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, and that means it’s time to revisit his work. Anyone looking to hear the Bard’s greatest hits in their original arrangements… Read more »
Video excuse: Stewart Lee signs book deal with Faber
The news that Faber & Faber has just signed a book deal with comedian Stewart Lee provides us with 1. Reason to be happy and 2. An excuse to post the… Read more »
La Caza Azul hosts a book drive for unaccompanied minors picked up at the US-Mexico border
Harlem’s La Casa Azul Bookstore is gearing up to partner on a book drive with the Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project (U-LAMP) at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/Safe Passage Project.… Read more »