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george packer
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Congratulations to the 2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant Recipients!
The Whiting Foundation's Creative Nonfiction Grant is in its second year and seeks to acknowledge the creation of exemplary works of nonfiction.
Ideas Perish
In the past few weeks, two bloggers have been murdered in Bangladesh for writing critically about Islam. Reflecting on the deaths of Washiqur Rahman and Avijit Roy, George Packer argues…
The Real Crisis
Along with the other onslaught of reactions to The New Republic’s mass resignation, George Packer offers his own response at the New Yorker, suggesting that the “collapse” (along with the…
Amazon.com vs. The Universe?
In The New Yorker this week, George Packer covers what sounds like a battle between serf states but is actually the heated war between Amazon, Apple and the Big 6…
No Wi-Fi: A Very Short Q&A with Alan from Borderlands Cafe
A couple weeks back, I was in a bad way. I’d recently joined Twitter, was always on Facebook, and checked my email (and I don’t exaggerate) about 75 times a…