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Voices from Chernobyl

Voices from Chernobyl

Seeing God in Tsunamis and Everyday Events

Seeing God in Tsunamis and Everyday Events

Hollywood Shadows: A Cure for Blocked Screenwriters

Hollywood Shadows: A Cure for Blocked Screenwriters

Rad Storm Rising (1990)

Rad Storm Rising (1990)

Indian Point Blank: How Worried Should We Be About the Nuclear Plant Up the River? (2003)

Indian Point Blank: How Worried Should We Be About the Nuclear Plant Up the River? (2003)

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The [New York] Times article was entitled, “Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town,” as if the victim in question was the town itself. James McKinley Jr., the article’s author, focused on how the men’s lives would be changed forever, how the town was being ripped apart, how those poor boys might never be able to return to school. There was discussion of how the eleven-year-old girl, the child, dressed like a twenty-year-old, implying that there is a realm of possibility where a woman can “ask for it” and that it’s somehow understandable that eighteen men would rape a child.

Roxane Gay, The Careless Language of Sexual Violence

What I meant to say.

NPR Amps Up: Can Vivian Schiller Build a Journalism Juggernaut? (2010)

NPR Amps Up: Can Vivian Schiller Build a Journalism Juggernaut? (2010)

Schemes of My Father

Schemes of My Father

Recap: 'America's Next Great Restaurant'

Recap: ‘America’s Next Great Restaurant’