Lit & Border News

empathy's double-edge

on allies and solidaridad

Jun 8 • John Washington

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May 2026

your local poet

and a burgeoning lit scene in Tucson

May 14 • John Washington

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April 2026

snakes in the bureaucratic grass

and why to focus on detention

Apr 30 • John Washington

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ICE Camps? - John Washington and Austin Kocher

Why our terms are failing us as we seek to understand the current immigration regime

Apr 8 • John Washington and Austin Kocher

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March 2026

A pivot point, not a retreat

on the vulnerability of the immigration enforcement regime

Mar 10 • John Washington

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February 2026

new book / new job

and reading about deals with devils

Feb 23 • John Washington

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January 2026

Blowtorch Diplomacy

and the lethal impact of modern day banishment

Jan 19 • John Washington

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December 2025

Best of 2026

a hard year, and flushing out a writer's block

Dec 29, 2025 • John Washington

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Immigration "extremism"

and facing down the pepperballs

Dec 9, 2025

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November 2025

Reading Recs on Immigration Detention

as I write my own book on the same

Nov 10, 2025 • John Washington

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October 2025

“I Know You Want to Find Me, But You’re Not Going To”

On disappearances in Guatemala and the United States

Oct 20, 2025 • John Washington

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September 2025

How to Close a Camp

new book about the immigration detention landscape

Sep 8, 2025 • John Washington

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