Translating Public Health For Ordianry People
The Envision conference revealed an ongoing disconnect between policy wonks and storytellers It’s 10am, and we’re talking about death. Deaths from disease and neglect—deaths…
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Remembering the Holocaust One Scrap at a Time
For its 20th birthday this year, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum went on “tour” – its word, not mine. In New York, at…
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“South African Violence” Only Explains Pistorius If You Think He’s Not Guilty
There’s a please-click-thru-six-screens cover story just published by TIME about the shooting, by track athlete Oscar Pistorius, of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, if…
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Don’t Blame the Victim, or the Photographer
This week, the Internet got angry at Sara Naomi Lewkowicz. The 30-year-old photographer had the audacity to photograph domestic violence – and to publish…
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Documenting Domestic Violence
Wednesday, as the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act was still less than certain, Time magazine published Sara Naomi Lewkowicz’s photo essay about…
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Why Have Well Intentioned Foreigners Done So Little About Haiti?
The numbers are not inspiring: Six months after the United States pledged $1.15 billion to Haiti in response to the 2010 earthquake, not one…
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How Fiction Fooled Hitler
Pulitzer Prize-winner Tina Rosenberg discusses the novelist who helped defeat the Nazis Jina Moore Before there was James Bond, there was Gregory Sallust. Unlike…
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How Not to Write About Rape
How can we make readers ethically comfortable with our journalism choices but morally uncomfortable with the horrors we have to write about?
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In Cheap We Trust
Here we are again: Even as the recession groans onward, box stores and boutiques alike are attempting to pry dollars from our clenched, fearful…
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Reimagining Anne Frank
Francine Prose’s Anne Frank is not, strictly speaking, a book about Anne Frank. That’s a good thing: We’ve had quite a few of those,…
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