Archive for April, 2013
Thoughtful article by David Remnick on the Bombing suspects and their family
Quote: “The Tsarnaev family had been battered by history before—by empire and the strife of displacement, by exile and emigration. Asylum in a bright new land proved little comfort. When Anzor fell sick, a few years ago, he resolved to return to the Caucasus; he could not imagine dying in America. He had travelled halfway around […]
Representations of the Boston bombing, its culprits, and terror (an opinion piece)
This is a short, though wide-ranging opinion piece. One pull quote does not really give a sense of what the rest of it is about, but here’s one to think about: “Waking up at six-thirty on Friday morning and hearing what had happened in the night, I followed my own generational instincts, honed on Vietnam […]