Antonio Ruiz-Camacho

The DC-based foodie explores border culture and food in the docuseries ‘La Frontera’ Illustration by Mona Daly Almost 10 years ago, while on tour to promote one of her cookbooks, Pati Jinich visited the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time. “I was…

Terrorism seemed absurd to me. There was a widespread belief in liberal circles that terrorism was caused by poverty, when in fact most well-known terrorists in modern times have come from middle-class families, have degrees — often multiple degrees — and have lived between cultures. It’s the torn people, who try to make meaning out of their alienation — often in destructive and self-destructive ways — that interest me.

The characters that inhabit the moving and sad and ultimately funny and hopeful 13 stories included in Stay Up With Me are usually stricken with grief and loss.