The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 5
The Border Chronicle hangs out with legendary journalist Amy Goodman, plus big tech and the "everywhere border" and a podcast about Latin American art and the borderlands and more!
Arts & Culture
47 articles
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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.
Bearing Witness Through Art: A Q&A with Artist Roberto Marquez
"I see it as my duty to show solidarity with the people who are suffering. All I want to do is to tell their story through my work," says Marquez.
The Borderlands Are Beautiful: A Podcast with Petey Mesquitey
The legendary storyteller takes us on a trip through the Arizona borderlands, its sky islands, flora and fauna, all the way to the border wall with Mexico.
A Live Podcast with David Taylor, Artist and Border Researcher
Recorded at the Tin Shed Theater with the wonderful people of Patagonia, Arizona, we talk about Taylor's fascinating career as an educator and artist who challenges our perceptions of borders.
Taylor Swift Builds Bridges, Not Walls
A father and daughter talk borders, what it means to be binational citizens, and their shared love for Taylor Swift and Juan Gabriel