How New Mexico Learned to Love Its Ephemeral Waters
Rollbacks to the Clean Water Act may have affected the borderlands more than any other region. States are stepping up—but there’s still more to do.
Arts & Culture
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From Seeking Asylum to a Life of Service: Dora Rodriguez on Her New Memoir "A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain."
From Seeking Asylum to a Life of Service: Dora Rodriguez on Her New Memoir "A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain.
How Artists Rethink the Border's Water Crisis
Taking back the Rio Grande/Río Bravo as a river, not a border checkpoint.
“I Wish This Book Did Not Have This Title”: A Q&A with Alma Guillermoprieto about The Years of Blood
A frank and wise account of over 40 years of reporting from Latin America by one of its most seasoned journalists
Listening to the Borderlands
Two audio projects offer soundtracks of a region often talked about, but seldom heard.
Telling the Stories of Sonora’s Water
"All water carries stories, voices, and drowned towns. To narrate what happens in a basin, you have to follow its waters' full course." An essay by Mexican writer Diego Rodríguez Landeros.
Uncanny Rio Grande Valley
Darkly humorous and surreal, Fernando A. Flores's borderlands fiction heralds the future. His new novel Brother Brontë chronicles deportation flights, government propaganda and a tech dystopia.
America's Gulag
In COMPLEX, artist David Taylor documents border surveillance and the “most significant architectural legacy we have created in the last 20 years.”
Postcards from the Border: An Essay of Paintings with Artist Susan Lyman
Welcome to this digital gallery of collage painting to reckon with and reimagine landscapes in the U.S. borderlands.
Death and New Life at the Santa Cruz River
An artist and a group of scientists on grieving and restoring Arizona-Sonora’s shared waterway. "It’s enormously inspiring.”
The Border Chronicle’s Third Annual Summer Reading List
We’ll be back in August. Stay hydrated, read a book (or two), and sign up for our 20 percent monsoon special subscriber discount—July only!
A Love Letter to the Samaritans: A Podcast with Shura Wallin and David Damian Figueroa
The codirector and star of the short documentary Shura discuss what happens when the spirit of kindness—in this case in the form of an 82-year-old woman from Illinois—meets the U.S.-Mexico border.
Love Across Borders: A Podcast with Anna Lekas Miller
What happens when you are in love but a massive border apparatus is in your way? Listen here to find out.