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Philip Gourevitch is staff writer at The New Yorker, former editor of the Paris Review, and author of three books: The Ballad of Abu Ghraib, A Cold Case, and We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda.
An interview with Philip Gourevitch on Rwanda, the dangers of narrative simplification, and the limits of humanitarianism.
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