Ed Vulliamy | The New York Review of Books

Reclaiming Native Identity in California

The genocide of Native Americans was nowhere more methodically savage than in California. A new state initiative seeks to reckon with this history.

June 22, 2023 issue

The Vindication of Sanora Babb

Eighty years after her novel about farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl was shelved, Babb's remarkable writing is finally coming out of America's literary shadows.

Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb

edited by Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith, with a foreword by David M. Wrobel

The Dark Earth and Selected Prose from the Great Depression

by Sanora Babb, with an introduction by Erin Royston Battat

Cry of the Tinamou: Stories

by Sanora Babb, with an introduction by Alan M. Wald

Told in the Seed and Selected Poems

by Sanora Babb

An Owl on Every Post

by Sanora Babb, with a foreword by William Kennedy

The Lost Traveler

by Sanora Babb, with an introduction by Douglas Wixson

Whose Names Are Unknown

by Sanora Babb

On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps

by Sanora Babb, with photographs by Dorothy Babb, edited and with an introduction and commentaries by Douglas Wixson

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August 19, 2021 issue

Will Covid Change Italy?

September 24, 2020 issue

‘It’s What We Do’

In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin

by Lindsey Hilsum

A Private War: Marie Colvin and Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels, and Renegades

by Marie Brenner

A Private War

a film directed by Matthew Heineman

Under the Wire: Marie Colvin’s Final Assignment

by Paul Conroy

Under the Wire

a documentary film directed by Chris Martin

La Mort est ma servante: Lettre à un ami assassiné, Syrie 2005–2013 [Death Is My Servant: Letter to a Murdered Friend: Syria, 2005–2013]

by Jean-Pierre Perrin

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December 20, 2018 issue

High and Dry

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

by Francisco Cantú

September 27, 2018 issue