FROM BAGHDAD TO ALBANY: LISTENING TO THE OTHER SIDE
I'm shouting at pigeons again, this time over our latest illegal, pointless war. Thanks to Tom Dispatch and Read Her Like an Open Book.
Shouting at Pigeons
Author of 8 novels, 6 books of nonfiction and a professor of journalism at Columbia University. My subjects lately have been refugees, war, women.
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TEACHING AT CAPITULATION COLUMBIA
(TomDispatch, Nov. 17, 2025)