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Writers

Katherine Boo

Shelter and the Storm

The diaspora of Hurricane Katrina.

Katherine Boo New Yorker Nov 2005 20min Permalink

Best Article

The Marriage Cure

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

Business

The Churn

A Texas border town fails to keep up.

Katherine Boo New Yorker Mar 2004 35min Permalink

Science

Swamp Nurse

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

World

Opening Night

In the slums adjacent to Mumbai’s airport.

Katherine Boo New Yorker Feb 2009 25min Permalink

Interview: Katherine Boo

On the craft of reporting poverty.

Emily Brennan, Katherine Boo Guernica Sep 2012 10min Permalink

Best Article World

Between Roses in Mumbai

The story of a young man on the run in the slum he dreams of escaping.

Katherine Boo New York Review of Books Feb 2012 Permalink

Invisible Lives

A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of group homes for the retarded in Washington, D.C.

  1. Part 1: "Forest Haven Is Gone, But the Agony Remains"

  2. Part 2: "Residents Languish; Profiteers Flourish"

Katherine Boo Washington Post Mar 1999 40min Permalink