Selections from Guernica
"Roger Ebert, Wikipedia Editor," by Quenton Miller | Why would the most influential critic of his generation post opinions anonymously in a distant corner of the Internet?
"My Father's Aleppo," by Maurice Chammah | An exodus, a return, and the questions that follow.
"My Asylum," by Barbara Taylor | After more than a century, Britain’s notorious asylums are no longer seen as models of enlightened psychiatry, and have been replaced by hospital wards and community services. Where does that leave the people they actually healed?
"Official Histories," by Kirsten Weld | Working to recover the secret archive of Guatemala’s National Police, veterans of the country’s long civil war try to pull together the missing parts of their country’s past, and of their own.
"All the Selves We Have Been," by Lynne Segal | More people than ever are living into old age, yet thinking about aging usually means trying to stop time. Why should we still believe there is only one way to grow old?
"The List," by Kirk W. Johnson | Despite post-traumatic stress and opposition from two presidential administrations, a former USAID employee has helped resettle hundreds of Iraqis whose work for coalition forces brought threats on their lives.
"My Father's Aleppo," by Maurice Chammah | An exodus, a return, and the questions that follow.
"My Asylum," by Barbara Taylor | After more than a century, Britain’s notorious asylums are no longer seen as models of enlightened psychiatry, and have been replaced by hospital wards and community services. Where does that leave the people they actually healed?
"Official Histories," by Kirsten Weld | Working to recover the secret archive of Guatemala’s National Police, veterans of the country’s long civil war try to pull together the missing parts of their country’s past, and of their own.
"All the Selves We Have Been," by Lynne Segal | More people than ever are living into old age, yet thinking about aging usually means trying to stop time. Why should we still believe there is only one way to grow old?
"The List," by Kirk W. Johnson | Despite post-traumatic stress and opposition from two presidential administrations, a former USAID employee has helped resettle hundreds of Iraqis whose work for coalition forces brought threats on their lives.
