Levi Vonk is an author, anthropologist, and the Guerrant Professor of Global Health Equity at the University of Virginia. His first book, Border Hacker, was a finalist for the 2023 Chautauqua Prize.
On immigration policy, Donald Trump isn’t as radically different from Barack Obama and Joe Biden as his inflammatory rhetoric suggests. Each has built upon his predecessor’s efforts to make border militarization and mass deportations the norm.
A scion of the Mexican right, Nicolás Medina Mora promises a window into the country’s elite in his autofiction debut, América del Norte. Had it actually offered that, the book could have been fascinating. Instead it gets mired in musings on whiteness.