Yay Pulitzers, or, Good thing you didn't close that paper, cuz it just won stuff…
Among the finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing, announced with the other Pulitzers about 20 minutes ago, is Amy Ellis Nutt, a reporter at the Star-Ledger in Newark, NJ. Here’s the citation:
Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., for her poignant, deeply reported story of ...
"No, I said I'd only waterboard if I HAD to, and then only for 20 minutes…."
The Obama Administration released some previously top secret documents about tactics used by the CIA today, at the same time that he promised those who implemented these tactics immunity from prosecution.
I make no judgment on the latter, though I do wonder to myself whether the same tactics described in these ...
Burundi ain't Rwanda
It gets treated that way. “They both have hills!” “They both have Hutus and Tutsis in the same proportions!” “They both even had genocide…except nobody really knows about Burundi’s.”
But anyone who’s taken the Kigali-Bujumbura express knows, hills and Hutus and mutually intelligible languages that no one else ...
Once more to Rwanda, or "How a Rwandan genocide survivor made peace with the man who almost killed her"
“No Small Mercy” is my newest story on Rwanda, in the fabulous Canadian magazine The Walrus. Think of a publication whose mission is something between the current affairs analysis of The New Republic, the dedication to space and literary reportage of The New Yorker, and the willingness of ...
Remembering Rwanda
Life came to a standstill this week in Kigali, if it’s anything this year like it was last year. And I’m sure it was. The week of mourning for the victims of the 1994 genocide is all-consuming. It doesn’t change in just a year.
Last year, I was ...
It's that time of year again
In Rwanda, in any case. Yesterday were the official ceremonies to mark the 15th anniversary of the genocide. I’m not in Kigali this year, but it’s still on my mind. And it feels much more strange to be here, where few people even know it’s the anniversary ...
Jina Moore
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