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From John Updike's The Terrorist
In his new novel, The Terrorist, John Updike imagines a homegrown Islamic terror plot brewing in northern New Jersey. Plus: Democratic Senator Bob Menendez talks about the non-fiction battle for control of Congress being waged in New Jersey right now; the latest installment of “The Border” our ongoing series on immigration tackles whether migration is a human right and two documentary filmmakers take us on the odyssey not only of immigration reform but their attempt at making a movie about it.
Updike’s Tunnel Vision
John Updike, poet and critic and author, Terrorist (Knopf, 2006)
- on his imagining a homegrown terrorist’s tunnel plot depicted in his 22nd novel Terrorist, set in northern New Jersey
» John Updike event at the New York Public Library
- on his imagining a homegrown terrorist’s tunnel plot depicted in his 22nd novel Terrorist, set in northern New Jersey
» John Updike event at the New York Public Library
The Border: Is Migration a Human Right?
Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies at the Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
- on the moral underpinnings of immigration policy
» Prof. Bhabha’s profile at Harvard
Photo: fabian17 on flickr. You, ...
- on the moral underpinnings of immigration policy
» Prof. Bhabha’s profile at Harvard
Photo: fabian17 on flickr. You, ...
The Border: Dream Weavers
Shari Robertson,
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Michael Camerini, documentarians whose new work-in-progress "My American Dream: How Democracy Works Now" premieres at the Human Rights Film Festival
- on the way immigration reform was pieced together
» New York Human Rights Film Festival
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Michael Camerini, documentarians whose new work-in-progress "My American Dream: How Democracy Works Now" premieres at the Human Rights Film Festival
- on the way immigration reform was pieced together
» New York Human Rights Film Festival
American Dreamers
Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini, documentary filmmakers whose new work-in-progress, "My American Dreams: How Democracy Works Now," is premiering at the Human Rights ...
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Author of Terrorist and 21 other novels
Immigration Conversation
From Jack, Manhattan:
Every single person in this country is descended from immigratns, which people seem to forget. There are many in this country who would like to prevent immigrants from coming in when they are just one or two or three generaations removed from b eing immigrants themselves. It ...