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"Border/Town" Surrounded by three sovereign nations, Bemidji, Minnesota, is a border town. Every place was, at one time or another, or is still, a border town. It depends on who you are and where you’re standing. @DavidTreuer for "An Unfinished Atlas": placesjournal.org/article/border…

Acclaimed author David Treuer writes about growing up on Leech Lake Reservation, and why the nearby town of Bemidji, Minnesota, a "border town," is so hard to love. His latest in Places, for "An Unfinished Atlas."

I know it’s been non-stop baseball on my feed, but it’s all linked to my love of Los Angeles, which I write about w/ some frequency. Here’s a new long form piece in Places Journal on the hidden history one of my favorite restaurants in L.A., Won Kok placesjournal.org/article/soup-a…

"There’s something special about a place that becomes a hub for your community w/o being designed that way, coalescing through a slight rhyme of its flavors and textures with your own." For "An Unfinished Atlas," Karen Tongson on Won Kok in LA Chinatown. placesjournal.org/article/soup-a…

Consortium director Karen Tongson has contributed to Places Journal’s #UnfinishedAtlas, focusing on Won Kok Restaurant in L.A.’s Chinatown

A beatiful piece by Shannon Mattern that matters now more than ever: "...breakdown is our epistemic and experiential reality. What we really need to study is how the world gets put back together." (2018) placesjournal.org/article/mainte… Places Journal