September 2011
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In a special issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine this past weekend, Junot Diaz, among others, shared memories of a teacher that changed his life:
I remember her as a small woman, but what do I know? I was small myself. She’s in none of the official photographs I have from my elementary-school days, but in my memory, my first librarian is a gentlewhitewoman who wore glasses and was...
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“Laurence Bergreen’s Columbus was brilliant, audacious, volatile, paranoid...”
– The New York Times Sunday Book Review
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Should the UN vote to recognize Palestine as a... →
Steve Coll covers the debate for The New Yorker from within the United Nations.
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Julie Salamon chats Wendy Wasserstein (and her new...
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"After 9/11, Hate Begat Hate" →
Ahmed Rashid on 9/11 in the New York Times’ Sunday Opinion Pages.
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"The Rites and Rights of Citizenship" →
Author and PSB speaker Moustafa Bayoumi shares his reflections on 9/11 - and on becoming a citizen 10 years later. Moustafa’s book is How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? and it is now out in paperback from Penguin.
