Nicolas Niarchos
Nicolas Niarchos is a writer whose work focuses on minerals, conflicts and migration. His work has been published in the New Yorker, the Nation and the New York Times. In 2023, he won an Edward R. Murrow award for a radio report from Ukraine for the New Yorker and WNYC. He is writing an upcoming book about battery metals for Penguin Books.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 167
Power Metals
Nicolas Niarchos
‘The city, which is home to more than 300,000 people, is collapsing into the millions of shallow, square holes that have been cut into the ground.’
Nicolas Niarchos on mineral extraction in Manono, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
