Rubén Martínez is a professor of literature and writing at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author, most recently, of Desert America: A Journey Across Our Most Divided Landscape (Picador, 2013).
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Shocked Silent
Rubén Martínez on the language we use after the Trump election....

Greening Justice: Can Disparate Actors Heed Pope Francis’s Call for Unity?
A new encyclical on climate change from Pope Francis unites spiritual, material, and moral visions of environmental justice....

A Tale of Two ’Hoods: A Rap on Silver Lake
Silver Lake: a correspondence....

Improbable Journey
Colonialist, slaveholder, slave, prisoner, storyteller, Moor....

Endless Mourning: Rubén Martínez on Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman's latest mourns the catastrophe of the endless drug war....

Desert Pilgrimage
Richard Rodriguez was the Chicano Chicanos loved to hate....
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