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Adam Braver
The Disappeared traces a pair of casualties who emerge from the ashes of separate acts of political violence: a woman whose husband is missing in a terrorist attack, and a…
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November 22, 1963 chronicles the day of John F. Kennedy’s assassination and explores the intersection of stories and memories and how they represent and mythologize that defining moment in history.
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Driving home at dusk, Claire Andrews, an art history professor at a prestigious New England university, accidentally strikes and kills a boy. Though immediately cleared of blame, she is nonetheless…
Braver presents this highly imaginative novel about the last years of Sarah Bernhardt, exploring her opium addiction, her many sexual liasons, and her scandalous career as the greatest actress of…
From the author of November 22, 2963 and Mr. Lincoln’s Wars
Sophisticated, subtle, nuanced, and very moving. –Rick Moody
Fierce and true, his fiction is unforgettable. –Claire Messud
A moving…
Melding facts with imagination, this story is centered around the last weekend of Marilyn Monroe’s life. Using the Tahoe weekend as a springboard, the novel explores moments throughout Monroe’s career…
Maryam Rafiee,Adam Braver
Maryam Rafiee was only a teenager when her father, Hossein Rafiee, was first imprisoned in Iran for expressing his political views. Unable to see or speak to him, she wrote…
Jewher Ilham
When Jewher Ilham’s father, Ilham Tohti, an internationally known advocate for peaceful dialogue between his Uyghur people and Han Chinese, was detained at the Beijing airport in February 2013 on…
When Jewher Ilham’s father, Ilham Toti, was detained at the Beijing airport in February 2013 on charges of separatism, Jewher had two choices: she could stay in China or fly…
Normando Hernandez Gonzalez,Adam Braver,Molly Gessford,Normando Hernandez Gonzalez
In March 2003, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez was among seventy-five Cuban journalists who were hunted down and arrested in what became known as the Black Spring. For reporting outside the regime-endorsed…
Naila Al-Atrash,Radwan Ziadeh,Sana Mustafa
What would you do to protect your freedom? Would you risk your reputation? Undergo interrogation, detainment, and abuse? Would you continue even when your friends and colleagues started going missing…
Bruce Sunpie Barnes,Rachel Breunlin,Normando Hern?ndez Gonz?lez,Adam Braver,Molly Gessford
All interviews in Talk That Music Talk were conducted by Bruce Sunpie Barnes and Rachel Breunlin between March 2012 and October 2014 –Page 291.
