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How Novelist Luis Alberto Urrea Wore the Bastards Down

Joe Mazza/Brave-Lux Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Big Angel—patriarch of the De La Cruz clan, “El Jefe” emblazoned on his coffee mug, a man who once “could make the walls crack with his voice”—is dying of cancer. Relegated to a wheelchair, he realizes that “somebody was going to have to…

Behind the Scenes of “Ear Hustle”

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a shabby, low-slung bungalow on the grounds of California’s San Quentin State Prison, Adnan Khan sits nervously in front of a microphone. A slender 33-year-old with dark, slicked-back hair and skin the color of cinnamon, he’s clad in typical prison fashion—jeans, powder-blue button-down over…