The personal-life liabilities of pursuing a Pulitzer Prize
About a month ago, I realized that my apprehension about talking to men here was impeding my work. The feeling, I decided, was an…
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The Rwandan catwalk
The eye of the beholder, it turns out, isn’t the easiest of standards. The beholder can be so…complicated. I found myself in Butare last…
Read MoreDon’t say he didn’t warn you
I’ve been holding this little tidbit for the right moment… The day Clinton wins in West Virginia seems apropos. When I was in Burundi,…
Read MoreGood news for people like me, if we lived in the Ivory Coast…
A friend forwarded me this story from the BBC, Ivory Coast’s ‘big-bottom’ craze. There’s a song in praise of bums, which spawned a dance…
Read MoreWhere have all the (cow)girls gone?
Okay, I don’t even like that song, so to all of you, and myself, I apologize. But yesterday it occurred to me, I’m surrounded…
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