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Fever Dreams: Hala Alyan on Displacement, Trauma, and Memory

Fever Dreams: Hala Alyan on Displacement, Trauma, and Memory

"I spend the hours-long dream chanting the line, determined to remember it, because the part of me that is awake, that is aware, knows I will want it later."

By Hala Alyan | June 9, 2025

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Home to Harlem">Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

Belinda Edmondson on the Peripatetic Perspective of a Landmark Novel

By Belinda Edmondson | February 5, 2025

Archaeology or Exclusion? Brandon Shimoda on Saving a Japanese American WWII Monument

Archaeology or Exclusion? Brandon Shimoda on Saving a Japanese American WWII Monument

The Author of “The Afterlife Is Letting Go” Remembers James Hatsuaki Wakasa and the Debate Over a Topaz Sculpture’s Removal

By Brandon Shimoda | December 11, 2024

André Aciman on Displacement, Family and the Struggle to Find Home In the Eternal City

André Aciman on Displacement, Family and the Struggle to Find Home In the Eternal City

“What I felt was the persistent, undefinable numbness that eventually overtakes you and won’t let go.”

By André Aciman | October 22, 2024

Thriving in Discomfort: SJ Kim on Writing About and Through Displacement

Thriving in Discomfort: SJ Kim on Writing About and Through Displacement

“Writing can reassure and writing can upset, writing can disrupt.”

By SJ Kim | April 17, 2024

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Tabea Alexa Linhard Explains Why Refugee History is Everyone’s History

By Tabea Alexa Linhard | July 14, 2023

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