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Susie Linfield

Susie Linfield teaches cultural journalism at NYU. She is the author of The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence and The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky. (May 2022)

How Do Whispers Become Movements?

A new history of conversation focuses not on the revolutionary moment but on the antecedents of transformative political change.

The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas

by Gal Beckerman

May 26, 2022 issue

A woman looking at images of dead bodies taken in Syria by the former military police photographer

Syria’s Torture Photos: Witness to Atrocity

While documentation of war crimes is still vital, the classic function of photography is now sorely tested.

February 9, 2019

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