I first encountered Hannah Neeleman, the polarizing figure behind the social-media sensation Ballerina Farm, the way most people encounter Hannah Neeleman: accidentally. A few years ago, her name came ...

Gwendolyn expressed her worry despite the present lecture. Mr. Caulier yanked back his words to a stop. He was explaining to his students the device of doppelgängers and their regular occurrence in ...

I have a scar that runs from my hip to my knee, and for years I described it the way a doctor would: fracture, plate, six screws. The morning before the surgery, I remember staring at the ceiling of a ...

Between the angular cuts of the typography, the searing red letterforms, and the torn wallpaper, the cover of Our Cut of Salt ...

First impressions are important. As a new student at four elementary schools across two states, my fun fact was a crowd-pleaser—I once lived near the equator. College admissions learned about my ...

It is somatosensory memory at work—the smell of dying leaves and lake water and Barbasol, of suddenly freezing air and pine ...

Floridians from all different Caribbean and Latin American countries of origin make regular pilgrimages for hard-to-find food and other products that remind them of their homelands. Amaris Castillo ...

My new novel—my fourth but the first to draw from my Palestinian heritage—is about a Gazan immigrant to Chicago. As I was writing, friends kept referring to it as my Palestinian novel, which sounded ...

Alice liked D.C best when the sludgy Potomac was still a mirror, a few rowers scratching the surface like skimmers or heteroptera gerridae, legs spread wide enough to balance on surface tension alone.

Narcos: Mexico omits all this, of course, and like its DEA protagonist, it smuggles back its distorted narrative, blaming the traffickers while erasing all the alleged CIA tracks in the crime. This ...

Oswaldo Zavala is a journalist and Professor of contemporary Latin American literature and culture at the College of Staten Island and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).