Book interviews with award-winning authors
Interview with 2018 National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction Award Finalist Dr. Adam Rutherford. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived (W&N) is a historical exploration of the evolution of Homo sapiens through genomics. Dr. Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. On radio, he is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship program, Inside Science, as well as many documentaries on autism, human evolution and more
Interview with Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland., for which he won the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction.
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning investigative journalist and staff writer at the New Yorker. He is the author of two previous books, The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream and Chatter: Dispatches From the Secret World Of Global Eavesdropping.
March 2019 interview with Alia Malek, author of The Home That Was Our Country. Published on The New School Blog. The memoir begins with a portrayal of Malek’s great-grandfather Abdeljawwad, a statesman in the city of Hama. Alia uses her great-grandfather’s life to shed light on the politics of that time.
Malek is a journalist and lawyer. She’s previously worked as a senior writer for Al Jazeera America with publications in The New Yorker, The Nation, and The New York Times.