A Country Called Amreeka
There is a scene in A Country Called Amreeka by Alia Malek that seems to be playing on repeat. We’ve been watching it for…
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Meet the Trafficker Who Moved Hundreds of People from China to New York
Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe follows the story of the boss of a human smuggling ring. In some sense, The Snakehead was a book just…
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Letterman Protest Misses Real Rape Crisis
By the time the crowd gathers outside David Letterman’s studio today, it will be midnight in Iran, and hundreds of thousands of citizens who…
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The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget
The stunning story of a Ugandan man’s quest for the truth about the murder of his father, who was killed during the reign of…
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The Antelope’s Strategy
After the genocide, ordinary Rwandans wonder: Can survivors and killers share hilltops again? There’s a shorthand in journalism for the difficult work of covering…
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All Things Must Fight To Live
In Congo brutality seems to be everywhere: history, war, politics; in the landscape and the poverty and the desperate chug of locals’ day-to-day lives….
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The Worst Book on Female Writers Ever Written (Maybe)
I represent half of Maureen Adams’s likely audience for Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton…
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After a certain point, and if you’re the creative sort, the only way to engage with a myth, perhaps, is to rewrite it.
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A Painting With Legs
Like the poems Emily Dickinson stored in her attic, or John Steinbeck’s repeatedly rejected early manuscripts, one of America’s best-known paintings was almost lost.American…
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