In the last three years I have driven along some of the smaller, less-travelled roads of the Mississippi Delta.
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In the last three years I have driven along some of the smaller, less-travelled roads of the Mississippi Delta.
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Ken Light teaches photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and has published two books of social commentary, With These Hands and To the Promised Land. He is represented by Contact Press Images.
More about the author →Ken Light revisits the photos he took of immigrants crossing the border between Mexico and the US in the 1980s.
‘I turn to O’Connor’s music when I get tired of lying to myself. Her songs are allegorical free-falls. Spiritual chiaroscuros, even.’
Momtaza Mehri on Sinéad O’Connor.
‘I lied about my age and I lied about my location and I lied about being horny.’
Fiction by Avigayl Sharp.
‘There can be any number of significant others in a life. Some we know for a long time; others are meteoric: we may see them only once.’
The editor introduces the issue.
‘Do they strike people as a strange couple? He does not know, does not care.’
Fiction by J.M. Coetzee.
‘Rub my scalp and tell me who I could have been. / Feed me a morsel or two.’
Two poems by Momtaza Mehri.
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