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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
4/29/2020

‘I’ve Lost Everything to the Beast’: Reviewing 4 Books on MS-13

by Rachel Nolan

While the specter of the MS-13 gang has been central to political panics about immigration, the group's origins are American. A Latin American historian reviews four new books.

SOURCE: New York Times
9/1/2020

A Salvadoran-American Assembles the Fragments of a Violent Cultural History (Review)

Carolyn Forché reviews Roberto Lovato's book "Unforgetting" on the transnational history of the Salvadoran people.