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Larissa MacFarquhar

Larissa MacFarquhar is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the forthcoming Strangers Drowning

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Is it better to help people close to you or strangers far away? Is it better to help someone yourself, in person, or does it not matter who helps and how, so...
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