Janine Di Giovanni
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"From Syria to Egypt, northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities that were the birthplaces of prophets and saints are losing any living connection to Christianity, the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives. In The Vanishing, journalist Janine di Giovanni writes about the last traces of small, hardy Christian communities that have become fearful of outsiders and where ancient rituals are quietly...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the front pages of the New York Times, journalist Janine di Giovanni gives us a tour de force of war reportage, all told through the perspective of ordinary people -- among them a doctor, a nun, a musician, and a student. What emerges is a picture of the devastating human consequences of armed conflict, one that charts an apocalyptic but at times tender story of life in...
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In the basement of a small publishing house in San Francisco, fourteen high school students met weekly over the past year to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and many other things. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together these high schoolers selected the contents of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014, a collection in which you can take a...