Volume 67, Number 15 (2020-10-08)

The deportation system held sway over immigrant communities long before Trump became president, but under his direction it has become even more far-reaching, arbitrary, and cruel.

The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants

by Adam Goodman

The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration’s Hidden Front Line

by Michael Kagan

Dan Chiasson

Dream

a poem

Fintan O’Toole

A Moral Witness

Martha Gellhorn’s letters to her lovers and intimate friends involve a remarkable feat of reportage on the war within Gellhorn herself

Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War, 1930–1949

edited by Janet Somerville

Robert F. Worth

Syria’s Lost Chance

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance

by Elizabeth F. Thompson

Vona Groarke

A Poetry Manual

a poem

Madeleine Thien

Poems Without an ‘I’

In Chinese poetry, fiction, and philosophy, the “I” is not the nerve center from which thought and knowledge begin.

The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)

by Ha Jin

The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated

by David Hinton

Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry

by David Hinton

Verlyn Klinkenborg

Wendell Berry’s High Horse

What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry, 1969–2017

by Wendell Berry

Joshua Hammer

Because It’s Still There

The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas

by Scott Ellsworth

Justine van der Leun

Confinement and Contagion

How coronavirus has made those in women’s prisons more vulnerable

Letters

Edward Hamburg,
Joseph O’Neill

Our Most Vulnerable Election

‘Teeming with Things Unknown’

The Desk and the Daring

The Cults of Wagner

Simulating Democracy

The Oracle of Our Unease

Deportation Nation