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Daniel Alarcón

Daniel Alarcón is a contributing writer at The New Yorker covering Latin America and U.S. Latino communities through the lenses of politics, culture, sports, and the criminal justice system. He is the executive producer of “Radio Ambulante,” a Spanish-language podcast, and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2021.

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Second Lives
20 under 40 fiction ·

Short story, set in an unnamed South American country, about a boy whose older brother goes to live in the United States.