Shelter and the Storm
The diaspora of Hurricane Katrina.
The diaspora of Hurricane Katrina.
Katherine Boo New Yorker Nov 2005 20min Permalink
In an Oklahoma City neighborhood usually left off city maps, the federal government is implementing its $300 million anti-poverty plan: teaching poor Americans how to get married.
Katherine Boo New Yorker Aug 2003 50min Permalink
A Texas border town fails to keep up.
Katherine Boo New Yorker Mar 2004 35min Permalink
In the bayou south of New Orleans, a program called the Nurse-Family Partnership tries to reverse the life chances for babies born into extreme poverty. Sometimes, it actually succeeds.
Katherine Boo New Yorker Feb 2006 20min Permalink
In the slums adjacent to Mumbai’s airport.
Katherine Boo New Yorker Feb 2009 25min Permalink
On the craft of reporting poverty.
Emily Brennan, Katherine Boo Guernica Sep 2012 10min Permalink
The story of a young man on the run in the slum he dreams of escaping.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of group homes for the retarded in Washington, D.C.
Katherine Boo Washington Post Mar 1999 40min Permalink