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Ben Ehrenreich

Ben Ehrenreich
Ben Ehrenreich is the author, most recently, of Desert Notebooks: A Roadmap for the End of Time and The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine, as well as of two novels, Ether and The Suitors. His writing appears regularly in The Nation, and has been published in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and the London Review of Books, among other publications.


Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

Ben Ehrenreich on the Riots of Northern England, Then and Now
September 13, 2024  By Ben Ehrenreich
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Remembering the Jasmine of Ramallah; Or, How to Write to the Heart of the Matter in a Broken World

Ben Ehrenreich on the Impossibility of Narrative Containment
August 8, 2024  By Ben Ehrenreich
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Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

“Sometimes you hear an echo of a sound that has not yet been voiced, of a shot that has not yet been fired.”
April 15, 2024  By Ben Ehrenreich
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Amitav Ghosh on the Lies of History and How the Natural World Fights Back

Ben Ehrenreich in Conversation with the Author of The Nutmeg’s Curse
October 18, 2021  By Ben Ehrenreich
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Lessons From the Desert: Rediscovering the Endlessness of Time

Dolores Dorantes in Conversation with Ben Ehrenreich
July 9, 2020  By Ben Ehrenreich
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The End of Something: On Radical Change in a Time of Pandemic

Ben Ehrenreich Considers What Might Come Next
May 21, 2020  By Ben Ehrenreich
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At the Qalandia Checkpoint: The Occupation’s Humiliation Machine

From Ben Ehrenreich's The Way to Spring
June 29, 2016  By Ben Ehrenreich
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