A fresh translation of Nelly Sachs’s later poems
For Sachs, flight is multivalent: her flight from the Nazis, any refugee’s flight from oppression, God’s flight from God.
refugees
Fleeing Ukraine and resettling elsewhere has been difficult—especially for African nationals.
The painter’s Exodus calls to mind the Passover, the Shoah, Ukraine, and the southern border.
“People asked, ‘Is it George Floyd or Jesus?’ My answer was yes.”
We began to understand why James Baldwin called US history “more beautiful and more terrible than anyone has ever said about it.”
The many voices of refugee experience
Kao Kalia Yang’s collective memoir conveys their diversity—and their singular humanity.
Lots of things. Here are a few priorities.
There is no single refugee resettlement story
Jessica Goudeau’s new book embeds the memoirs of two very different women in a primer on what it means to seek refuge in America.
So is our nation’s long history of choosing economic success over global equity, safety, and wellbeing.
A week with 12 law students volunteering in South Texas
A novel about climate change’s impact on all of us
In Gun Island, Amitav Ghosh practices what he preached in The Great Derangement.
The Book of Lamentations resonates with the stories of oppressed immigrants and refugees.