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Place: Lac du Bois, Bemidji, Minnesota
Ruby Sutton
The Man Without a Face
Katie Gee Salisbury
Tune In, Drop Out, Homeschool
Lauren Markham
The Space Where I Make a Life Is a Rented Room
Cathy Linh Che

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John Washington

John Washington is a writer and translator based in New York. He’s currently writing a book on asylum seekers for Verso Books. Find him at @jbwashing.

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He told me to use the name Ernesto because he was scared to use his real name. And his mujer—his “woman”—told him that she’d always liked the name. It was hard to imagine this ...

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A Translator’s Reflections on the Story of Two Teenage Murderers Separated by Almost Two Centuries by John Washington “He donned his holiday clothes, had his sister sing a ...

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