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New on nybooks.com: Joyce Carol Oates on why we write, Michael Ignatieff on a visit to the Fukushima red zones, Garry Wills on William Buckley, Glenn Shepard on photographs of the lost tribes of Tierra del Fuego, and Hugh Eakin and Alisa Roth on the Syrian refugee crisis. Plus a new installment in our collaboration with VICE News, featuring Alma Guillermoprieto.
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Joyce Carol Oates
Why do we write? Out of what human need—or hunger—does inspiration spring? That’s to say, what is the motive for metaphor?
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VICE News
Alma Guillermoprieto discusses her reporting on the 43 students from a teachers college in Guerrero who disappeared last year at the hands of corrupt police and a local drug gang.
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Michael Ignatieff
As Japan resumes nuclear power, the fishing town of Namie, still blanketed in radioactivity from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, offers a different lesson.
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Garry Wills
With a new documentary and several new books, a lot of attention is now being paid to William F. Buckley, Jr. The interest may, in fact, be fueled by overstatement.
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Glenn H. Shepard Jr.
Martin Gusinde’s haunting photographs of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego present a way of life that was already on the brink of extinction when he visited the region in 1918–1924, and that has since ceased to exist.
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Hugh Eakin and Alisa Roth
With the war now in its fifth year and Western governments preoccupied by fears of jihadists striking on their own soil, it is hard for humanitarian organizations even to make the case for Syrians in need.
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