Performing for America

A conversation with Carey Baraka, whose short story “The Sound of the Waves” was published in our America issue.

Carey Baraka 10/10/24 Carey Baraka 10/10/24

The Sound of the Waves

“It felt as if, the university having collected us, we were now on display, exotic specimen there to perform. And so we performed.”

Jacob Kushner 4/16/24 Jacob Kushner 4/16/24

How a Pentecostal preacher in Kenya persuaded hundreds of worshipers to starve themselves — and their children — to death.

Jacob Kushner 6/15/23 Jacob Kushner 6/15/23

Kenya's $5 billion railway to nowhere is exacerbating debt and corruption.