José Orduña

• "Place of the Shades, Or: Letter to Your Laughter" —The Normal School (Spring 2025)

• "Border Acts" —The Believer (June/July 2021 Issue)

• "X" — Don't Look Now: Things We Wish We Hadn't Seen (Anthology)

• "Scenes From a Pandemic: 7" —The Nation

• "Social Distance" —Desert Companion (online & in print)

• "A Nation of Laws, A People of Compassion" —Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Issue 55)

• "My Very First Green Card," excerpt from The Weight of Shadows—Beacon Broadside

• "Joe Arpaio, a Devil in a Cast of Villains"—NACLA–Border Wars Column

• "A Legacy of Weaponized Amnesia"—NACLA–Border Wars Column

• "That Our Mind Hinders Itself"—After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

• “The Drone of Political Theater: 2016’s DNC and RNC.”—Beacon Broadside

• “On the Hollow Spectacle of Attaining American Citizenship,” excerpt from The Weight of Shadows—Literary Hub

• “What It’s Like to Serve President Obama Dinner as an Unnaturalized Citizen,” excerpt from The Weight of Shadows—Alternet

• “White Crosses: Vigil Along the U.S./Mexico Border”—Powells Books Blog

• “Tasers, Drones, and Cold Chicken: Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Business of Keeping Me Out of America”—Buzzfeed

• "Qué se siente que me quieran fuera de Estados Unidos" (Translation of "Tasers, Drones, and Cold Chicken: Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Business of Keeping Me Out of America" —Buzzfeed

• Radio Interview —Access Utah

• "My Story Doesn't Begin When I Was Born"—conducted by Micah McCrary —Los Angeles Review of Books

• "Out From the Shadows: A Normal Interview with José Orduña"—conducted by Eddie P. Gomez —The Normal School

• "A Good Deal of Light"—conducted by Gemma de Choisy —Guernica

• "Deferred Action is Mostly a PR Tactic"—conducted by Patrick Reilly, Global Voices at the University of Chicago International House—Global Voices University of Chicago Undergraduate Political Reviw