Archive - Lit & Border News

How to Close a Camp

new book about the immigration detention landscape

Sep 8, 2025 • John Washington

Reading Recs on Immigration Detention

as I write my own book on the same

Nov 10, 2025 • John Washington

I think of Meybelín

and the dangers of competent cruelty

Sep 23, 2024 • John Washington

“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

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

Dec 29, 2025 • John Washington

Immigration "extremism"

and facing down the pepperballs

Dec 9, 2025

LA and the omnicrisis

from the front lines of Los Angeles, and the world through the lens of Virgil

Jun 18, 2025 • John Washington

and threats against the press in the United States and El Salvador

Jun 2, 2025 • John Washington

Blowtorch Diplomacy

and the lethal impact of modern day banishment

Jan 19 • John Washington

and I mean what I write

Feb 6, 2024 • John Washington

on the gross and proliferating misunderstanding of human smuggling

Nov 29, 2024 • John Washington

new book / new job

and reading about deals with devils

Feb 23 • John Washington

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