A recent feature story in the Badger Herald on the relationship between literature and politics of immigration drew on an interview with CLS Director Theresa Delgadillo, a Vilas Distinguished Professor of English and Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies. The article noted that fictional stories can shed light on larger truths of immigrant experiences and the realities of exclusion, isolation, economic difficulties. Historical fiction can help make sense the present by bringing the past to life. The story quotes Professor Delgadillo as saying that readers “can find in literature an opportunity to think about our contemporary moment or think about it differently.” Other interviewees for the piece included poet Danez Smith, a UW-Madison graduate, and Quinn Henneger, editor of the Madison Journal for Literary Criticism. In the interview, Professor Delgadillo also encouraged students interested in literature and immigration to submit their own writings to the CLS Program’s Latinx Studies Journal. The next issue of the journal is scheduled to be published at the end of the Spring semester.