Stephen Phelan’s work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Believer.
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Stephen Phelan’s work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Believer.
His novels might be read as a fictive analogue to Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States: a polyphonic chronicle of the betrayal of his country’s original promise.
Scotland’s independence referendum is a contest between the head and the heart, between love and money.
Shigeru Ban's humanitarianism is unquestioned, but are his designs too humble to warrant architecture's most coveted prize?
Before In Cold Blood, there was Operation Massacre.
Did Pinochet's goons murder Pablo Neruda? There was only one way to find out.
Onagawa: a place in the modern world that had suddenly passed from existence. Remembering Japan’s tsunami.
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