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Increasingly feels like we're entering into a new 'post-literate' society

For the Border Chronicle, I wrote about three artists whose work helps us reframe the US and Mexico’s conflict over the waters of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo: theborderchronicle.com/p/how-artists-…

"It is a meditation on mining and the damages of extraction, rendered through physical form, temporality, words, and images." Caroline Tracey (cetracey on blusky) assesses the experimental book-art of Mexican author Verónica Gerber Bicecci. lareviewofbooks.org/article/form-o…

For Los Angeles Review of Books, I wrote about the work of Mexican “visual artist who writes” Verónica Gerber Bicecci and her book The Company—a visual novel about an abandoned mine in Zacatecas that includes a rewriting of Ámparo Dávila’s “The Houseguest”: lareviewofbooks.org/article/form-o…

Beneath today’s Starship launch smoke at Boca Chica, a new kind of Texas city is rising in political power — “How Musk’s Starbase Could Become the Most Powerful City in Texas” My latest for The Border Chronicle: open.substack.com/pub/theborderc…

Scoop: Pima County, Senator Mark Kelly, and University of Arizona have been quietly trying to lure a new hypersonic missile manufacturer to Southern Arizona. The company, Castelion, was founded by three former SpaceX workers. azluminaria.org/2025/05/27/a-n…

"Many of the book's subjects are writers who declared that they had renounced writing in order to search for a way to surpass its limitations." Caroline Tracey (cetracey on blusky) considers "The Company" and the work of Verónica Gerber Bicecci. lareviewofbooks.org/article/form-o…

I wrote about the gulag in El Salvador, for The New York Review of Books Some context on U.S.-Salvadoran history, Bukele, and forced disappearances nybooks.com/online/2025/06…

I attended CPAC Argentina late last year and tried to describe Just How Bad the vibes were there. (Bad.) See below for the link!

come talk about uteruses with me at a bookstore near you!!

Alice Driver's "Life and Death of the American Worker" follows the lives of roughly a dozen of these workers, chronicling the injustices they faced while toiling for Tyson and telling the story of how they gathered the courage and resources to wage a legal battle against the

For The Nation, I wrote about Alice Driver’s book, The Death and Life of the American Worker, about Mexican and Central immigrant organizing in the poultry processing plants of Arkansas—an important contribution to US labor journalism: thenation.com/article/cultur…

I appreciate that this article has benefitted from being published on a day when this dead site had traffic lol

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“It offers itself as evidence that, in a moment of ecosystem collapse, aesthetic experimentation can yield new ways of understanding damage and articulating its remedies.” Caroline Tracey (cetracey on blusky) writes about “The Company” by Verónica Gerber Bicecci Los Angeles Review of Books ow.ly/vyUC50W62ZC

For the Border Chronicle, I wrote about local opposition to Mexico's plan to build three new dams in Sonora. Though the federal water commission says construction will begin in July, local specialists say the required studies and consultations are missing: theborderchronicle.com/p/mexico-says-…