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Story-stretching: A New Yorker trend1 comment

newyorkercommas wrote 1 day ago: STORY STRETCHING: A New Yorker trend (Or:  Hey, kids!  Let’s put out a book!) Story-Stretching … more →

Tags: A Cold Case, Junot Diaz, New Yorker, Oscar Wao, Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief

Recovering Reality: A case for the 'truth'?

aishaghani wrote 1 week ago: Call them what you will for it, romantics, perhaps even naive in this regard, but Gramsci and Marx d … more →

Tags: Journalism, Harold Pinter, Errol Morris, Truth

Bites: Ayn Rand Dominates and is "Influential", Paris Review Conversation, Finding Edward Gorey, and More.

Jason Diamond wrote 1 month ago: This terrifying picture is from the GQ piece on Ayn Rand called “The Bitch is Back“. If … more →

Tags: Paris Review, Vladimir Nabokov, geoff dyer, Ayn Rand, spoonbill and sugartown, Thomas Bernhard, Edward Gorey, 92nd Street Y

Gourevitch Leaves Paris Review

Taylor Bright wrote 2 months ago: Announced yesterday: Philip Gourevitch will leave his position as editor of the Paris Review in Apri … more →

Tags: Journalism, Books, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton

Summer Reading List!1 comment

Akhil wrote 3 months ago: Here is a list of the books I read this summer. I loved all of them. ———— … more →

Tags: Check This Out, 1984, Aseem Kaul, Atul Gawande, better, Books, Complications, Études, genocide

Chilling in Rockport, some book thoughts

jeffkellylowenstein3 wrote 4 months ago: Tuck's Candy is just one of the many pleasures here in Rockport. Photo courtesy of Flickr. So … more →

Tags: Current Books, Political Books, sociology books, The New Yorker, Stephen Covey, We Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow We Will be Killed w, Errol Morris, Dave Russell, Tuck's Candy Shop

San Francisco Film Society review: "Munyurangabo" Lee Isaac Chung explores Rwanda's Lost Generation, screens Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, San Francisco, June 12-18, 2009

genevaanderson wrote 6 months ago: Sangwa and Munyurangabo from Lee Isaac Chung's "Munyurangabo." Image courtesy of Film … more →

Tags: film, Geneva Anderson, just.watch, Rwanda genocide, genocide, Munyurangabo, Lee Isaac Chung, Rwanda, san francisco film society

Why the Torture Photos Should Be Released - A Call to Vote No on War Funding Bill

wisconsinforveterans wrote 7 months ago: Recently Senators Lieberman and Graham authored a horrendous addition to the 2009 War Supplemental b … more →

Tags: Edward Tick, Lieberman, Lindsey Graham, Errol Morris, The Ballad of Abu Ghraib, War and the Soul, ACLU

1 book a week for 1 year

Jonathan Payne wrote 7 months ago: I never realized I was such a slacker next to President Bush. I was sent an article comparing the re … more →

Tags: Personal, Books, bush, dan gediman, James Surowiecki, jay allison, Malcolm Gladwell, obama

Gourevitch returns to Rwanda, five books about the genocide.

jeffkellylowenstein3 wrote 7 months ago: These Rwandan children represent the hope of the country 15 years after the genocide. Photograph by … more →

Tags: Current Books, The New Yorker, Samantha Power, Atlantic Monthly, Paul Kagame, Gacaca, We Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow We Will be Killed w, an ordinary man, Paul Rusesabagina

The IRA in Adulthood: Do Political Movements Grow Up?

delialloyd wrote 8 months ago: I’m a sucker for movies about politics. Reds, Julia, and All the President’s Men count a … more →

Tags: Current Events, Movies, Bobby Sands, Hunger, IRA, Irish Republican Army, nothing personal, political movements, Political violence

LISTEN UP: Rwanda In Recovery

savedarfuraccountabilityproject wrote 8 months ago: Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families … more →

Tags: Rwanda, Audio

"A crime is not absolved just because it works"

hotfiler wrote 8 months ago: Best argument against Cheney’s claim that torture is “effective”: Former Vice-Pres … more →

Tags: Torture, dick cheney, New Yorker

Machetes to Mosaics - April Reads11 comments

therubycanary wrote 8 months ago: It was a slow reading month, I didn’t quite make it to thirteen, so I added a couple of magazi … more →

Tags: Books, War, Buddhism, Peace, Ani Pachen, TC Boyle, katherine dunn, Harry Potter, shambala sun

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families:

urbesque wrote 10 months ago: From We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by … more →

Tags: Reviews, Meredith Kooi, Wuthering Heights, The Station Theatre, Deke Weaver, Jennifer Allen, The Lost Boys of Sudan, We Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow We Will be Killed w

Review: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families15 comments

Heather wrote 11 months ago: Title:  We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Famlies: Stories from Rwanda … more →

Tags: nonfiction, Crime, Politics

Bush Packs the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council1 comment

gitell wrote 12 months ago: In a rush of appointments prior to leaving office, President Bush is naming key supporters to a numb … more →

Tags: George W. Bush, Jews and Judaism, Elliot Abrams, Holocaust, Ira Stoll, Jonathan Rosen, Joshua Bolten, Michael Chertoff, Michael Mukasey

April 6th 1994

jenmonthen wrote 12 months ago: First published in my old blog 24 Nov 2006 – Pasteur Bizimungu was released and pardoned in 20 … more →

Tags: Articles, Rwanda, Paul Kagame, Juvenal Habyarimana, Rwandan genocide, Tutsi, Hutu, kigali, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed W

Overload Update5 comments

Faith wrote 1 year ago: Oryx and Crake…done. Vanity Fair…done. Hobbit and Life of Pi for the Teen Reading Club b … more →

Tags: Books, Contemporary, Music, politics, Edward Said


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