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Asturias Days

American writer Clellan Coe, who has lived on the windswept northern coast of Spain for many years, sees her surroundings as both an insider and an outsider.

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Camín de Bérbora

by Clellan Coe | Friday, February 15, 2019

Crystal Clear

by Clellan Coe | Friday, February 08, 2019

Typical

by Clellan Coe | Friday, February 01, 2019

Take Me Back

by Clellan Coe | Friday, January 25, 2019

Melting

by Clellan Coe | Friday, January 18, 2019

El Bote

by Clellan Coe | Friday, January 11, 2019

Reyes

by Clellan Coe | Friday, January 04, 2019

Los Inocentes

by Clellan Coe | Friday, December 28, 2018

Cataratas

by Clellan Coe | Friday, December 21, 2018

Una y No Más

by Clellan Coe | Friday, December 14, 2018
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”