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Nov 29, 2024 | 
johnwashington.substack.com | Jason de Léon |John Washington
Etymologically, the verb to smuggle has German roots, meaning something like to lurk, to creep, or to slip. As with the various etymological shades, there are different sorts of smuggling — drugs, antiquities, exotic pets, succulents, as well as people. I recently reviewed Soldiers and Kings by Jason De León for New York Review. To research and write the book De León spent years partially embedded with a group of human smugglers in southern Mexico.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
pulsoslp.com.mx | Jason de Léon
La tarde de este viernes 22, el cantante puertorriqueño Rauw Alejandro brindó una sorpresa inesperada a sus seguidores mexicanos, al ofrecer un mini concierto en la icónica terraza de Sanborns de los Azulejos, en pleno corazón de la Ciudad de México. Este evento, que se llevó a cabo de manera espontánea, y reunió a una gran multitud que, con entusiasmo, cantó junto al artista algunos de sus temas más populares, como "Lokera" y "Tú con él".
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
people.com | Jason de Léon |Lena Khalaf Tuffaha |Lin King |Rachel Raposas
Host Kate McKinnon and fiction winner Percival Everett. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty (2) The 2024 National Book Awards were presented to winners in fiction, nonfiction, young people's literature and translated literature, as well as awards for lifetime achievement and service to the literary community. Comedian and author Kate McKinnon emceed the event and Jon Batiste performed as the musical guest.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Ieva Jusionyte |Jason de Léon |Rachel Nolan
There are only two gun stores in Mexico. Throughout the enormous country, which takes three full days to cross by car from top to bottom if you don’t stop, the only places you can legally buy a gun are a shop on a military base in the capital and a shop on another military base in the large northern city of Monterrey. It’s not advisable to drive straight through Mexico any more, even if you don’t stop. The country is awash with guns, which are often in the hands of criminal outfits.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
time.com | Rachel Sonis |Jason de Léon
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Craig Unger |Edmund White |Jason de Léon |Dorian Lynskey
Carl Rhodes. Bristol Univ, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5292-3910-2“Vast and widening economic injustice on a global scale is obscured by the moralization of the ultra-rich,” according to this biting critique. Rhodes (Woke Capitalism), an organization studies professor at the University of Technology Sydney, argues that lionizing billionaires as either heroic, generous, meritorious, or crusading serves to mask their misdeeds while deflating calls to more equitably distribute wealth.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jason de Léon |Deborah Taffa |Linnea Axelsson |Sophia Stewart
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2024 National Book Award shortlists. The winners in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature—will be announced during an awards ceremony on November 20.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jake Adelstein |Jason de Léon |Dorian Lynskey |Neko Case
Tokyo Noir: In and Out of Japan’s UnderworldJournalist Adelstein follows up The Last Yakuza with another illuminating blend of memoir and reportage. For 12 years, Adelstein covered the crime beat at Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, focusing on organized crime. In late 2008, a purge of the top bosses in Japan’s largest yakuza group—including Tadamasa Goto, who’d developed a particular grudge against Adelstein—left the reporter feeling adrift.
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May 21, 2024 | 
kosu.org | Jason de Léon
University of California Los Angeles anthropologist Jason De León spent seven years embedded with a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico. He tells their stories in the new book “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.” De León joins host Deepa Fernandes to talk about the book.
Book excerpt: ‘Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling’
By Jason De León
Roberto’s murder doesn’t warrant much attention.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
time.com | Jason de Léon
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