The New York Review of Books presents a series of online talks hosted by our Advising Editor Fintan O’Toole. For our first fall event, New York Review contributors Francisco Cantú, Caroline Moorehead, and Julia Preston join O’Toole for a wide-ranging conversation about America’s treatment of immigrants. The conversation will last approximately ninety minutes, including a question-and-answer period.
Francisco Cantú is a writer and translator, and the author of The Line Becomes a River. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, his writing and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and VQR, and his work has been collected in The Best American Essays series and featured on This American Life. He teaches at the University of Arizona, where he is one of the coordinators of the Field Studies in Writing Program and DETAINED, a community archive that collects oral histories of people who have been incarcerated in for-profit immigrant detention centers.
Caroline Moorehead is a historian and biographer, most recently of a quartet of books on the resistance in France and Italy before and during World War II and a life of Mussolini’s daughter Edda. She is a human rights journalist and the author of Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees.
Julia Preston is a journalist focusing on immigration. She is the coauthor, along with Samuel Dillon, of Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy, an account of Mexico’s transformation from an authoritarian state into a struggling democracy. She was previously a contributing writer at the Marshall Project, a nonprofit organization that publishes reporting on criminal justice and immigration. Before the Marshall Project, she worked at The New York Times, first as a foreign correspondent in Mexico and thenas the paper’s national correspondent covering immigration.
About this series
The New York Review of Books is pleased to announce a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration. In each conversation Review’sAdvising Editor Fintan O’Toole will talk with a group of contributors and esteemed guests about critical subjects, including immigration, political violence, the rule of law, and the state of the left. Each event, held on Zoom, will last about ninety minutes and include an audience Q&A session. All events are pay-what-you-wish (with a suggested fee of $10) and open to the public.
