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Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold is a poet and journalist. She is currently a Berggruen Fellow at Harvard Divinity School.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 138 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138 padlock

Eliza Griswold | Is Travel Writing Dead?

Eliza Griswold

‘Even in its subtler forms, the act of looking is an act of self-regard.’

Art & Photography | Issue 137 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 137 padlock

Blue Sky Days

Tomas van Houtryve & Eliza Griswold

‘For those caught beneath its thrum, there’s no comfort that the drone, and whoever is at its helm in America, is only targeting the bad guys.’ Eliza Griswold introduces Tomas van Houtryve's unsettling photo-essay taken by drones coming close to civilian life in the manner of the drones currently deployed in Afghanistan.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 137
Essays & Memoir | Issue 137

First Sentence: Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold

‘This, of course, was years before anyone knew or cared who Boko Haram was.’

Poetry | Issue 134 padlock
Poetry | Issue 134 padlock

Friday Afternoon with Boko Haram

Eliza Griswold

I spent the Hezbollah war in Nigeria eating hummus in a Syrian cafe and watching...

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