Tag Archives: ICE

Stephen King Understands MAGA

Stephen King is the most banned author in America at the moment. It may be because he depicts America’s dark side so vividly.

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Latino Author Battles Caricatures

Muñoz’s stories in “The Consequences” humanize people that Trump and ICE are seeking to demonize.

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Channel Your Inner Gandalf

Gandalf challenges the allied forces to stand tall against Sauron. Don’t underestimate such principled stands.

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Hammett on Boomeranging Power Plays

Hammett’s “Red Harvest,” with its tale of corruption rebounding on the corrupt, seems particularly relevant today.

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Atwood Predicted ICE

In her sequel to “Handmaid’s Tale,” Atwood describes arrest scenes that immigrants snatched by ICE are actually experiencing.

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The ICEman Cometh

ICE’s attack on immigrants brings to mind Frost’s “Fire and Ice,” O’Neill’s “The Ice Man Cometh,” Stevens’s “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” and Niemöller’s “First They Came.”

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Kafka and America’s Disappeared

America is “disappearing” people, bringing to mind the fate of K in Kafka’s “Trial.”

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Stephen King and Detention Centers

Stephen King’s latest novels unconsciously reflect contemporary events, with kids imprisoned in detention centers.

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Children Dying in ICE Custody

Friday Testifying before a Congressional committee investigating inhumane treatment of asylum seekers, Yazmin Juarez’s gave the tragedy an all too human face by recounting how she lost her baby daughter due to “neglect and mistreatment” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I share an Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet to acknowledge her heartbreak. According to an […]

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