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David Rieff ( / ˈriːf /; born September 28, 1952) is an American nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism. Biography. Rieff is the only child of Susan Sontag, [1] who was 19 years old when he was born.
Jun 10, 2016 · This rich book provides a field guide to a more decent politics of forgiveness, in which Trump and Trumpism may one day be mercifully forgotten too. Gary J. Bass, a Princeton professor, is the ...
Jan 10, 2008 · Swimming in a Sea of Death. A Son's Memoir. By David Rieff. Purchase. Facebook. Flipboard. Email. Diagnosed with cancer for the third time, Susan Sontag signed on for a harsh treatment regimen...
The latest glimpse we have of her sickbed is “Swimming in a Sea of Death,” David Rieff’s intelligent, disordered account of his mother’s final illness. It is perhaps surprising that Rieff...
David Rieff is a New York-based journalist and author. During the nineteen-nineties, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central Asia. Rieff has written extensively about Iraq, and, more recently, about Latin America.
Oct 7, 2003 · David Rieff is a journalist and public intellectual who writes, among other things, about wars and humanitarian crises. A Bed for the Night is his critique of humanitarian organizations. He objects to the ways the leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), Oxfam, and the International Rescue ...
Nov 6, 2015 · The real challenge is to transform the incomes of poor people, enabling them to spend their way out of hunger and the other indignities of poverty. From his false premise, Rieff careers off into...
