Month: <span>December 2011</span>

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The Anarchivists: Who Owns the Occupy Wall Street Narrative?

On Nov 15, NYPD officers raided Zuccotti Park, and the Occupy Wall Street movement lost its space. Now groups and institutions—including the Smithsonian’s Natural Museum of American History, NYU’s Tamiment Library and the New York Historical Society-- are working to enshrine the movement in the form of an archive.

But who, in the end, will get to tell the definitive story?

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Arrested in Iran: The Story of Roxana Saberi’s Imprisonment

In 2009, while doing research for a book on Iran, Journalist Roxana Saberi was falsely accused of espionage, detained without the knowledge of her family and sentenced to eight years in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Saberi, who was born in the United States, traces her Iranian roots to her father’s family and her Japanese heritage...

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Brooklyn As Muse: Why So Many Writers?

In the beginning there was Walt Whitman’s “Brooklyn Ferry.” Then came Henry Miller’s Williamsburg. The Brooklyn Bridge was Hart Crane’s, the Brooklyn accent Thomas Wolfe’s.   Truman Capote and Paula Fox wrote their version of the Heights. Jonathan Lethem and L.J. Davis tapped onto 1970s brownstone Brooklyn. Paul Auster owned Park Slope. Brooklyn isn’t only a...