BEN EHRENREICH

I went to sea on a migrant rescue ship in the Mediterranean, from the New Republic.

On immigration in the age of Trump, in Rolling Stone.

On famine, war, and climate change in East Africa. From the London Review of Books.

An excerpt from The Way to the Spring, in The Guardian.

On the refugee camp in Calais. From the London Review of Books.

From the London Review of Books.

On the LAPD's killing of Miguel Angel Cano. From the Los Angeles Review of Books.

In Sderot during the last war. From the Los Angeles Review of Books.

On the Nakba Day killings of Nadim Nuwara and Mohammad Abu Thaher. From the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Gaza before the war. From the Los Angeles Review of Books.

A killing at a West Bank checkpoint. From the Los Angeles Review of Books.

On the protest movement in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. From the New York Times Magazine.

On the arrest of Chicano activist Carlos Montes. From Los Angeles magazine.

On the role of water in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, in Harper's. This one won a PEN Center USA award.

On the destruction of L.A.'s Occupy movement. In the Los Angeles Review of Books.

A report from Arizona from Slake number two.

On death in Los Angeles. From Los Angeles magazine. This one won a National Magazine Award..

On the drug war in Mexico, for the London Review of Books.

On the Khmer Rouge trials and genocide tourism. In Harper's.

On the death of the Salvadoran poet, and the man who may have killed him. In the LRB.

A sad story about our own gulag archipelago, and about Victoria Arellano, who was allowed to die while in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

About architecture and revolution and what happens when they grow old.

On the poet Frank Stanford, and holes within holes.

On Haiti's first presidential election since its last coup.

On the Minuteman Project. (Originally published in The Believer, but online in full here.)

A report from New Orleans just after the storm.

An extremely strange, sad story, and hard to summarize.

On the "Sexually Violent Predator," moral panic, other such pleasantries. Only an excerpt here, alas.

On riding the rails. God this feels like a long time ago.

On the pandemic, from Lit Hub.

On progress. An early excerpt from Desert Notebooks in The Baffler.

Ahem.

From The Nation

Umm, we can't.

On Victor Shklovsky

On Julio Cortázar.

From the Los Angeles Review of Books.

On torture and other American traditions.

On Zionism.

Which seems more perfect with each passing day.

On John Edgar Wideman's Fanon.

On Brian Evenson.

Maybe it's a story. In Triquarterly.

On boys and birds, in BOMB.

A short excerpt from the novel, in sturdy pdf.

A very short story about what it says it's about. Published in Slake, RIP.

The marbles have been sold, but the story is free.

Really really real. In BOMB, as text and podcast.

Sometimes not so obliquely.

An excerpt from The Suitors.

Just a tease, they give you.

A love triangle comprised of a man, a woman, and a dead giant squid. Originally published in McSweeney's, but these kind folks have posted it in full. They also sell tee-shirts.

I thought this story was funny, but not everyone did. Published in BOMB.