LARB Digital eDitions #41: Migration

November 201545 pages

LARB Digital eDitions #41: Migration

As the refugee crisis unfolds before us, we face an all too familiar, and contemporary, challenge: to do more than just watch events, and the people affected by them, unfold before our eyes; to look and listen to those events instead – to the people affected by them – and respond.


The articles selected for this digital edition engage in a shared exercise: they all in their own unique ways challenge and put pressure on how we see, and are conditioned to see, the victims of war and migration – whether through the media, or history, or the quiet nuances of language. They ask us to look beyond the ghost lands, to the silhouettes that trespass our borders and boundaries, and let them be present once again.