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Thomas McNamee

Thomas McNamee  is the author of The Inner Life of Cats, The Killing of Wolf Number Ten, and other books.

Summer on the Sweet Grass

Summer on the Sweet Grass

Notes from a Montana ranch

by Thomas McNamee | Thursday, June 20, 2019

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2nd Look

Strange Fruit and Stolen Lives

by Stephanie Bastek

Following this weekend’s New Yorker feature on Patrick Phillips’s 2016 memoir, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, we’re revisiting our 2018 Smarty Pants interview with Phillips. In it, he recounts the brutal history of Forsyth County, Georgia, where a 1912 lynching led to the violent eviction of nearly all of the county’s Black residents from their homes.

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