'The Royal Abduls' by Ramiza Shamoun Koya is not an easy read, but a necessary one for those wishing to understand how badly we treat visible minorities.
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Asylum-Seeking Refugee Children Placed in Camps, Lady Liberty Weeps
My mother came to this country at the age of six, braving a long steerage boat trip by herself to find the “Goldene Medina.” Her parents had come before her, and landing at Ellis Island, she came through the golden door of the country to find her way. An unaccompanied …
Read More »SXSW 2018 Exclusive Interview: Filmmaker Jason Outenreath on His Immigration Documentary ‘They Live Here, Now’
The human rights filmmaker discusses his new feature-length documentary/narrative hybrid.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Ragtime’ from the Gallery Players
As a 'Ragtime' newbie, I wondered how E.L. Doctorow's three connected stories of early-20th-century America fit together in a musical theater context. The answer, on the evidence of this fine new production, is: brilliantly.
Read More »Music Review: Malcolm Holcombe – Pretty Little Troubles
Holcombe creases a sense of decrepitude and weariness into his deliberately half-wrecked-sounding voice and uses both to pointed effect, speaking directly to the immigrant, the wanderer, the home-seeker in all of us.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Leavers: A Novel’ by Lisa Ko
Is 'The Leavers', the forthcoming debut novel from Lisa Ko, worth waiting for?
Read More »Interview with Helga Stipa Madland, Author of ‘You’re Not From Around Here, Are You? Reminiscences’
I am aware that not much has been written in English about the period immediately after World War II in Germany. I hope this book will fill a little bit of that lacuna.
Read More »Music Review: Various Artists – To What Strange Place: The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora 1916 -1919
A fascinating collection of music from a very specific period in the history of immigrant America.
Read More »Movie Review: Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
Sholem Aleichem, from whom the world knows Fiddler on the Roof is the subject of a fantastic new documentary.
Read More »Book Review: A Hard Death by Jonathan Hayes
Can a mistake make a pathologist lose those he holds most dear? Will it keep him from seeing the truth?
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