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Cora Currier

Cora Currier is a former reporter and editor for The Intercept, she has also written for ProPublica, Bookforum, The New Inquiry and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles.

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November 14, 2024
Cora Currier
Beyond the Motherhood Memoir
Ayşegül Savaş’s “The Wilderness” is part of a slew of little books on new motherhood and art—and their tensions.
January 25, 2024
Cora Currier
Searching for Guatemala’s Stolen Children
Journalist Rachel Nolan investigates tens of thousands of forced adoptions and the U.S. policy that enabled them.
December 15, 2021
Cora Currier
The Humanitarian Horror of L.A. Rain
Tens of thousands of unhoused people in Los Angeles County suffered through a massive downpour this week. Now comes the bitter cold.
November 18, 2021
Cora Currier
Shuttered Day Cares and Scrambling Families: Unpacking the Childcare Crisis
A TNR Live discussion on how the pandemic brought the dire state of care work to the fore—and what we can do about it
October 27, 2021
Cora Currier
Teju Cole’s Tour of the Shadows
In a new essay collection, the critic and novelist questions how much art can do to ease injustice.
September 24, 2021
Cora Currier
The Photos the Border Patrol Wants You to See
The agency portrays itself as a humanitarian force—not one that whips desperate migrants by horseback.
June 28, 2017
Cora Currier
Yuri Herrera Rejects the Clichés of the Drug War
American audiences have come to expect "narcolit" from Mexican authors.

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