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Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng

Arts, Culture & Media

In 2000, Dave Eggers became the literary voice of his generation with the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. But in his latest work, Eggers chose to channel a very different voice. What is the What tells a fictionalized version of the real life of Valentino Achak Deng, a young man who fled the […]

Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng

Arts, Culture & Media
Novelist Ayelet Waldman and a Palestinian man in Hebron. “For most of my life, I loved Israel, I longed for Israel, I planned to live in Israel,” she says.

Novelist Ayelet Waldman is sending writers to the West Bank to document what they see, 50 years into occupation

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This Muslim American cop show: ‘Not Law and Order: Special Muslims Unit’

Media

U.S. immigrant high school students reflect on American Dream

Global Politics

Immigrant High Schoolers Reflect on the American Dream

Conflict & Justice

11th grade student-author Edwin Soto talks with The World’s Jason Margolis about the challenges and opportunities of being a young immigrant from the Dominican Republic in the United States.

The World

Friday at the Movies: Where the Wild Things Are

It’s Friday morning and we’re talking about what everyone is talking about: “Where the Wild Things Are.” The highly anticipated adaptation of a long-beloved children’s books hits theaters today.

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