Alaina Kaus, "Fighting Over There: U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
U.S. foreign policy has long been built on a dichotomy of an irreplaceable "here" and an expendable "there." In his 2003 announcement of the military campaign in Iraq, George W. Bush declared that we would fight in the Middle East so we wouldn't have to fight "on the streets of our cities." But wha…
Hector Tobar: The Barbarian Nurseries
Araceli Ramirez, the heroine of Héctor Tobar's new novel, is a nanny is accused of kidnapping her charges, when she is, in fact, taking them to their grandfather....
Translating across Solitudes
How can two populations talk to each other across the divide of language? Montreal writer David Homel talks about his experience translating Quebecois French literature and if he thinks translation may help the "two solitudes" of anglophone and francophone Canada come together. We get into David's …
S5 Ep. 29: ‘A War I Saw Unfolding Firsthand’: Héctor Tobar Reflects on the 30th Anniversary of the L.A. Riots
Novelist and journalist Héctor Tobar joins Fiction/Non/Fiction hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the articles he wrote on the L.A. riots both as they took place in 1992 and this year on the 30th anniversary. Tobar also reads from his 2020 novel The Last Great Road Bum, an…
Héctor Tobar, Jena Friedman, and Joseph (REBROADCAST)
Author Héctor Tobar explores the meanings and myths of the term "Latino" in his sixth book Our Migrant Souls; comedian and writer Jena Friedman (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) chats about her debut collection of essays Not Funny and recounts the time she put her foot in her comedic mouth; and indie fo…
Political solidarity and state power
The thwarted Central American revolutions during the latter half of the twentieth century marked a watershed in what had become a global anti-imperialist movement striving for a more egalitarian future. Examining a range of documentary, literary, and artistic works, including Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, …
The Fire Line Audiobook by Fernanda Santos
Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: The Fire LineSubtitle: The Story of the Granite Mountain HotshotsCategories: America, Biography, Computer, EcologyAuthor: Fernanda SantosNarrator: Ari FliakosPublisher: Macmillan AudioRelease date: 05-03-2016Language: EnglishSumm…
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