By Adiel Kaplan The following episode takes place two-thirds of the way through the book. It begins on April 9, 2003, three weeks after the… Read More »The Headless King: The Journey of a 4,400-Year-Old Looted Statue From Baghdad to Queens during the Iraq War
By David Mora This episode is the opening scene of Chapter 6 of a book in progress, “An Undocumented Tragedy: The Tale of the… Read More »The Disappeared
By Clarence Leong This is an excerpt from a book in progress on Chinese immigrants to America in the era of the Chinese Exclusion… Read More »The Exclusion Years: How a Law Shaped the Chinese American Experience
By Jonathan Lee Chapter 6: The Battle for Los Angeles On March 3, 1991, surrounded by more than 20 Los Angeles police officers,… Read More »The Third Race: How Asians Have Defied America’s Binary View of Race
By Denise Hassanzade Ajiri Chapter One: Fallen from Eden My Assyrian great grandfather planned to become a priest. He became a communist instead.… Read More »The Devout Communist: A Portrait of an Assyrian Family in Iran
By Alina Entelis Chapter 1. A Party in the Forest On December 8, 1991, at 1:08 p.m. Washington time, U.S. President George H.W.… Read More »The Disarmament Race
By Caitlin Foster Chapter I: Hekmatullah’s Revenge This is the opening scene of a book in progress that will document the war in… Read More »The Fork in the Mountain Road
By Audrey Fein Chapter One: The Auction It was a crisp fall evening on November 15 in New York City. A mixture of… Read More »Salvation: The Curious Journey of the World’s Most Desired Painting
By Isaac Fornarola Chapter One: What Do We Do With Thurmond? It’s late March, and the ashen coal fields of West Virginia… Read More »Wild and Wonderful: The Story of Thurmond, West Virginia
By Lindsay Holcomb Chapter One – Building the City of Tomorrow On a warm spring morning in 1954, Samuel LeFrak walked out of… Read More »LeFrak City and The Politics of Place