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Publications

The Big Roundtable

Crime

A Trial By Fire

In eight minutes, Miashah Moses took out the trash and a blaze consumed the apartment where her nieces were watching television. What happened, and who’s to blame?

Carol Mersch The Big Roundtable May 2016 50min Permalink

Notes From My Suicide

The view from a low point.

Kenneth R. Rosen The Big Roundtable Mar 2016 25min Permalink

Politics

The Man Who Jumped Out of the Window

In 1952, Abe Feller, the U.N.’s first General Counsel, jumped to his death. More than 50 years later, his great nephew tries to figure out why.

Peter Birkenhead The Big Roundtable Jun 2015 35min Permalink

Crime World

The Killers of Swaziland

Bringing a serial killer to justice reveals the country’s other sources of death and suffering.

Shaun Raviv The Big Roundtable Mar 2015 1h20min Permalink

Science World

The Boys Who Loved Birds

A friendship born of mutual interest in birding stretches across the Berlin Wall.

Phil McKenna The Big Roundtable Feb 2015 35min Permalink

Sex Religion

Damage

"When I was younger, someone took a knife to my clitoris and cut out a small but significant part of me. I blamed my mother. I despised her. I loved her."

Mariya Karimjee The Big Roundtable Jan 2015 40min Permalink

Science

Something More Wrong

Inside the women’s ward at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.

Katherine B. Olson The Big Roundtable Jul 2013 30min Permalink