Gender Studies
Her husband says, when women get old they come to be more like men. And old men come to be […]
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The Never-Ending Serial
When I was a boy, the Varsity Theater was a mile from our house. Saturdays we were allowed to walk
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Cathedrals: Ode to a Deported Uncle
Tío, you learn there’s always a border—I imagine a poor family in Jocotepec takes you in. You work as a
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Foreign-ness
1. “I’m not obsessed,” Violette says, “just really passionate about you trimming your side of the hedge.” In translation from
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Mother and Child
“Mother and Child (Nancy and Olivia),” a painting by Alice Neel, New York City, 1967 Portrait painting, so long out
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Bonanza
Amanda shows me my bones, A picture of my spine, ghost-like, Snake-like, like it could rattle. I say, Amanda, it