The Borderlands’ Lost Third Country
Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel, Now I Surrender, is an epic about the U.S. and Mexico’s joint erasure of Apachería.
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Who Will Stand Up for the Rio Grande?
The river is drying up, while Texas's elected leaders ignore the real border crisis.
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