Olga Kreimer

Francisco Cantú and “The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border”

By Olga Kreimer• Why's This So Good?• February 1, 2018

I remember first hearing Francisco Cantú’s story sometime last year, spooling out from my car speakers as I wound through mountain curves many hundreds of miles from the border he writes about. He was telling a story of his … Read more

5(ish) Questions: Richard Marosi and “Without a Country”

By Olga Kreimer• Strictly Q&A• January 30, 2018

Stories about anti-immigrant raids and deportations can take on a sheen of the generic: a series of action-movie snapshots coupled with thousand-foot views of policy, statistics and ideology that tackle the facts but miss the eye-level truth. “As a … Read more

Liana Aghajanian and the story of immigrants in America, one recipe at a time

By Olga Kreimer• Strictly Q&A• December 14, 2017

Freelance journalist and essayist Liana Aghajanian has hopscotched around the globe, reporting on stories as far apart as the first record store in Mongolia, an Arizona man looking for “the holy grail of botany,” and the Muslim … Read more

5(ish) Questions: Abbie Gascho Landis and the surprising climate book “Immersion”

By Olga Kreimer• Strictly Q&A• September 14, 2017

The photograph on the cover of Abbie Gascho Landis’ “Immersion” is the first hint that the book is going to be surprising. The image is at once coy and inviting, a puckered pout that is somehow so voluptuous that … Read more

5(ish) Questions: Mandy Len Catron and “How to Fall in Love With Anyone”

By Olga Kreimer• Strictly Q&A• August 22, 2017

Perhaps you’ve read that Modern Love essay in The New York Times, the one that zipped around the country along internet tethers and social media synapses in 2015 like contagious hope, bearing an irresistible headline – “To Fall in … Read more

5 Questions: Anne Helen Petersen and the white supremacists who came for Whitefish

By Olga Kreimer• Strictly Q&A• April 20, 2017

Anne Helen Petersen has spent the last year covering Trump rallies and protests, the anti-Dakota Access Pipeline camp at Standing Rock, crowd-funded healthcare, survivalist “preppers” and what it means when famous men take off their shirts — just to name … Read more

5(ish) Questions: Inara Verzemnieks and “Life in Obamacare’s Dead Zone”

By Olga Kreimer• Strictly Q&A• February 9, 2017

“Life in Obamacare’s Dead Zone,” Inara Verzemnieks’ story about the health insurance coverage gap, came out in the New York Times Magazine a month after the presidential election, as the media buzzed about inaccurate predictions, liberal bubbles and the … Read more

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