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David Rieff (/ ˈ r iː f /; born September 28, 1952) is an American nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism.
Dec 17, 2007 · David Rieff's memoir of the terminal illness of his mother, Susan Sontag, shows the consolations of philosophy deserting her and the denial of truth sustaining her as death approached.
Jun 10, 2016 · David Rieff argues that the way we remember our shared past can be fraudulent, even dangerous.
Jan 10, 2008 · Her son, the noted journalist David Rieff, has published a memoir about his mother's "revolt against death" — and about what he describes as the unanswerable questions of a survivor. Sontag...
Jan 1, 2016 · David Rieff, an independent writer who has reported on bloody conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and Central Asia, insists that things are not so simple. He poses...
Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer.
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Jan 8, 2008 · David Rieff. Simon and Schuster, Jan 8, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 364 pages. Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother,...
Mar 8, 1996 · In a shocking and deeply disturbing tour de force, David Rieff - perhaps America's most acclaimed chronicler of displaced people, of lives in flux - journeys into the center of the war in Bosnia,...
David Rieff is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of seven previous books, including the acclaimed At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention, A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis and Slaughterhouse Bosnia and the Failure of the West. He lives in New York City. Publications.
Oct 1, 2002 · Timely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations trying to bring relief in an ever more violent and dangerous world are often betrayed and misused, and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose. Humanitarian relief workers, writes David Rieff, are the last of the just.
