Good morning, Border Chronicle subscribers! We have an exciting invitation to share with you this week: on October 22, we are hosting a fifth birthday party! It will take place in Tucson at La Indita Restaurant from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets include dinner and a wonderful lineup of music and speakers. Reserve your tickets here: theborderchronicle.com/event-ticket.

This week, The Border Chronicle‘s posts included an essay about Mexican writer José Revueltas’s appearance in the epigraphs of three recent border books and a review of the new book Leave if you Can by Amelia Frank-Vitale, contributed by geographer Joseph Nevins. Below, you’ll also see Raquel Gutiérrez’s fourth and final poem in our poetry supplement—next week, we’ll introduce you to the poet Matt Flores for the series’ next installment.

Next week, The Border Chronicle staff members Todd Miller and Caroline Tracey both have events open to the public: on Tuesday, September 29, Todd will be in Virginia giving a talk at the College of William & Mary, and on Friday, October 1, Caroline will give a colloquium talk at the University of Arizona’s Geography department. Both flyers are below. Come say hello! — Caroline Tracey

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This Week in The Border Chronicle:

The Accidental Revival of José Revueltas

How a prolific Mexican writer, all but unknown in the United States, became the patron saint of some of this year’s most important borderlands books. By Caroline Tracey.

Beyond the Border Trap: A Review of Amelia Frank-Vitale’s Leave if You Can

Frank-Vitale says we must stop “seeing migration as the problem.” Instead, she insists, “the problem … lies in all the attempts to stop human mobility, to contain, detain, and deport people.” By Joseph Nevins.

More News from Across the Border Region:

She died at the San Diego Border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight. Times of San Diego / MIT Technology Review (Part of the series Dying on Camera)

Santa Ana’s Last Stand Texas Observer

In Eagle Pass, I Floated the River While I Still Could Texas Monthly

Las Playas Intaglio, damaged by Az-Mx border wall contractors, is older than Egyptian pyramids & Stonehenge Tucson Sentinel

This Texan wants to build a new border bridge. Locals warn it’s a trap. Houston Chronicle

The U.S. Government Quietly Just Made It Legal to Go Through Your Phone at the Border L.A. Taco

Largest international livestock crossing reopens after screwworm outbreak NPR

Woman’s unborn baby dies after Starr County Border Patrol crash, attorney says The Monitor

Calexico council, residents clash over border traffic gridlock Imperial Valley Press

AZ Gov. Hobbs sides with Tohono O’odham against border wall Arizona Daily Star

Floating barriers appear near El Chalán Ferry in Los Ebanos as federal border buoy project grows KRGV

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