Andrea Pitzer

Andrea Pitzer is a writer and journalist who has contributed to The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Vox, Slate, and Lapham’s Quarterly. She is the author of The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov (2013), One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps (2017), and, most recently, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (2021).

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Mission to the Frozen North

William Barents’s last Arctic voyage was destined to be not a triumph of navigation but a struggle to survive. Four centuries later, his dream of a Northeast Passage is a troubling reality.

January 5, 2021

America’s Concentration Camp System

A process of normalization, when a bad camp becomes much more dangerous, is not unusual. Today’s border camps are a crueler reflection of long-term policies.

June 21, 2019

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