Annette Gordon-Reed is a historian and a professor at Harvard Law School. She won the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for “The Hemingses of Monticello,” which extended some of the work commenced in her pathbreaking “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.” She joined us the morning after the election … Read more
In defiance of this mantra, Fox Solomon lets the self-portraits in her book starkly convey the brutality of aging. Her pictures, many of them nude, feature open sores, shattered nails, and bones jutting out of feet almost to the point of pushing through the skin. These are not the images her mother would have approved … Read more
For years, we’d thought what everyone thought: that there were twenty-four civilians killed by Marines in Haditha on November 19, 2005. But maybe everyone was wrong. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. … Read more
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Helen ShawStaff writer Catching the fleeting international theatre offerings in New York can be like chasing after fireflies—the minute someone points out some wonderful work, the brief engagement is already dark and gone. These are the shows most worth the hunt, though; some of the world’s most adventurous, exhilarating, and galvanizing work will be in … Read more
My mother made a point of raising well-spoken Oklahomans. In her household, country participles like “brang” were tantamount to slurs. I was a soft boy who spent most of my time indoors, leafing through Mom’s glossy magazines or choreographing dances with my sister to the theme song of “Three’s Company.” Well-meaning adults pushed me toward … Read more
In your story “Neighbors,” a couple moves west to San Francisco in the wake of an infidelity, hoping to “redraw the map” of their marriage. While they are there, the husband has an eerie encounter in a neighbor’s house. These two strands of the narrative are seemingly unrelated, but, of course, this is a crafted … Read more
In “The Time Being,” your story in this week’s issue, a young man gets entangled with an older man, a distinguished European named Mr. V., whom he thinks of as a survivor, a “subject of history.” What does the young man—our narrator—mean by that? Is it merely a quality of age, or is there something … Read more
Your story “Hostel” is one in a series of stories—which will be published in your collection “Highway Thirteen” in August—that revolve around a serial killer: each story includes characters whose lives he touched or took. (The New Yorker also published an earlier story, “Demolition,” that will appear in the collection.) How did the idea for … Read more
This week’s story, “The Spit of Him,” is about a boy named Kevin who ventures out to a neighboring village and, in the process, may or may not discover a dark secret about his father. How did the idea for this story come to you? I began working on this story one night in my … Read more
Your story “On the Night of the Khatam” takes place primarily at a gathering of Afghan refugees who are living in Sacramento, and who meet to talk, gossip, eat, and pray together, although their histories, political views, and affiliations in Afghanistan are all quite different. Did gatherings like this take place when you were growing … Read more
