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Varieties of Matrimony
My review of The Heart is a Shifting Sea by Elizabeth Flock ran in this weekend’s New York Times Book Review– the Pleasure Reading issue. A snippet: The journalist Elizabeth Flock was in her early...
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Reading North Korean Poems During the South Korean Olympics
I wrote about the poems of the “The Red Years,” by Bandi, which are being translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl for US publication, for The New Yorker.
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In Secret, a North Korean Writer Protests the Regime
This week on The New Yorker Radio Hour, I interviewed Heinz Insu Fenkl. Fenkl is in the process of translating the poems included in that mysterious manuscript said to have been smuggled out of North...
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Writing and Resistance Today
I recently had the chance to sit down with Abdellah Taïa and Chiké Frankie Edozien at the CUNY Graduate Center for an evening of discussion put together by Words Without Borders, Belladonna* Series,...
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What to Read This Summer
I was on The Takeaway today sharing my summer reading recommendations with host Tanzina Vega. My picks: Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday, There There by Tommy Orange, Pretty Things by Virginie Despentes,...
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Introducing: ‘Today in Focus’ from The Guardian
In September, I moved to London and began working with a fantastic team of radio producers to create a new, daily, current affairs podcast for The Guardian. We launched this week! The show is called...
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Books of 2019: My favorites
In the years when I was reviewing books regularly, I got into the habit of compiling a list of favorites at the end of each year. (Some previous lists: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011 and 2010.) When you’ve...
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British Podcast Awards
Last weekend, Today in Focus took the gold award for Best Current Affairs Podcast at the British Podcast Awards. Our team couldn’t be more delighted; it’s been a journey! The show also took silver...
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Books of 2020: My favorites
End-of-year-lists: So arbitrary and yet so satisfying! This year was a hard one for real reading. I would often sit down with a book and end up scrolling through the news on my phone in a daze for 45...
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In India, the complicated truth behind the killing of two teenagers
I wrote about The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro for this weekend’s Washington Post. Here’s a snippet of my review: As Faleiro probes the case, an extensive supporting cast emerges:...
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The Book Collectors of Daraya by Delphine Minoui review – a secret wartime...
My review of The Book Collectors of Daraya by Delphine Minoui appeared in this past weekend’s Guardian.
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Excitement, glamour and occasional gunfire: The life of a Pan Am stewardess
My review of Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan-Am by Julia Cooke recently ran in the Washington Post. A bit about the book: In the earliest days of commercial air travel, cabin...
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A plan to make feminism better: Make it less White
I reviewed Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria for the Washington Post– and just so happened to be in D.C. the day it was published. Read the whole piece here.
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An economist at home in many cultures
My latest piece for the Washington Post was this review of Home in the World: A Memoir by Amartya Sen, a lovely account of the economist’s early years: After he was awarded the Nobel Prize, the Nobel...
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Running memoirs: Reviews of new books from Lauren Fleshman, Kara Goucher, and...
Earlier this year I got to review two new memoirs by Lauren Fleshman and Kara Goucher for the Washington Post. I’ve admired and followed the careers of both for a long time, so it was eye-opening and...
View ArticleRecent book reviews: fiction by Walter Kempowski, Camilla Grudova, Andrey...
I’ve fallen behind on updating this site! Some recent (well, from the last six-ish months) book reviews and podcast projects below. For the Financial Times: I reviewed An Ordinary Youth by Walter...
View ArticleSecond half of 2024: Reviews, interviews, podcasts
As the year comes to a close, here’s a quick round-up of a few projects I’ve worked on over the last six months. For the the Financial Times, I reviewed Rejection by Tony Tulathiamutte. For the...
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