Documentary filmmaker and Khmer Rouge survivor Rithy Panh spent hundreds of hours interviewing Duch, the commandant of the Cambodia “killing fields” and one of the most notorious torturers of the 20th century. This is his haunting memoir of those interviews.
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An Ex-Industrial Fisherman Rethinks His Job
“It’s not just about: How can we save the oceans? But we also need to flip our way of thinking and ask: How can the oceans save us?”
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The Last Freeway
The true story of L.A.’s freeways, and a judge who changed everything.
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Interview with a Torturer
Documentary filmmaker and Khmer Rouge survivor Rithy Panh spent hundreds of hours interviewing Duch, the commandant of the Cambodia “killing fields” and one of the most notorious torturers of the 20th century. This is his haunting memoir of those interviews.
Posted inBooks, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story
An Ex-Industrial Fisherman Rethinks His Job
“It’s not just about: How can we save the oceans? But we also need to flip our way of thinking and ask: How can the oceans save us?”
Posted inBooks, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story
Escape from Jonestown
15-year-old Tommy Bogue was sent to a promising new church settlement in Guyana—run by a charismatic leader named Jim Jones.
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Autistic and Searching for a Home
Between jail and the hospital, Savannah Shannon’s life is in limbo.
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Falling: Love and Marriage in a Conservative Indian Family
“Indians don’t ‘fall,’ Debie. We don’t marry by accident. We choose.”
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‘Quebrado’: The Life and Death of a Young Activist
“If you survive me, tell them this: I never gave up.”
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Autistic and Searching for a Home
Between jail and the hospital, Savannah Shannon’s life is in limbo.
