In the essay “An American Publishes a Magazine” Wallace Shawn discussed his magazine called Final Edition. In the magazine, a group of pictures showing American soldiers torturing people in chains. People definitely suffered or shocked when they saw the pictures, but they think this as the sovereign public and did not react, nor the nation has react. The atrocities were slowly had been consider normal and people could accept. Shawn is not interesting to the words “the United States”, but he is proud to being an American, that he lead to have nice and easy life. Shawn talks about the law on immigration, he resent the fact that he need permission to go anywhere. And he also gives his thoughts about being an American has no difference than from other country, he just happen to born in New York and grow up here.