All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIf your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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