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Brown Neon

by Rebecca Hussey

The essays of Raquel Gutiérrez’s "Brown Neon" mix personal writing with cultural history and criticism to explore race, gender, migration, and art in the southwestern US during the 45th presidency. “On Making Butch Family: An... Read More

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A Hard Place to Leave

by Kristine Morris

The luminous essays of journalist Marcia DeSanctis’s "A Hard Place to Leave" juxtapose the restless search for elsewhere with longing for home. The entries begin in a dank Moscow hotel room in 1983, and end with DeSanctis on a blazing... Read More

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Crossing Paths

by Kristine Morris

The Pacific Crest Trail winds its way between the Mexican and Canadian borders, challenging and inspiring trekkers with its deserts and streams, dense forests, and rugged mountain slopes. In "Crossing Paths", editors Rees Hughes and... Read More

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Troubled Water

by Erika Harlitz Kern

Jens Mühling’s colorful travelogue "Troubled Water" captures the history and cultures on the shores of the Black Sea. The Black Sea has been a crossroads for warring and colonizing societies since human civilization began to take form... Read More

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