Students' Publications
When I asked all former fellows of the Writers’ Institute to send me their list of publications, I had no idea that I would be deluged by the sheer volume of success stories in the print media. Let me highlight three of the most recent: Menachem Kaiser ’14, Nathan Thrall ’08, and Valeria Luiselli ’09.
Here are two reviews of Menachem Kaiser’s Plundered (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt):
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/books/review-plunder-memoir-family-property-nazi-treasure-menachem-kaiser.html?searchResultPosition=3
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/books/review/plunder-menachem-kaiser.html?searchResultPosition=2
Menachem’s pieces have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tablet, Slate, and Vogue.
Our other and enduring success story is Nathan Thrall. Nathan has remained visible from the moment he started publishing in 2008. His latest piece came out this March in The New York Review of Books, where he is a regular contributor. He also writes for The London Review of Books The New York Times, The New Republic, GQ, Slate, The Guardian. He has appeared on the BBC, NPR, and CNN. His reports on the Middle East are frequently quoted by many journalists, especially The New York Times. His book was published in 2017 The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine (Metropolitan Books).
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2021/03/19/a-day-in-the-life-of-abed-salama/
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2021/03/20/the-endless-occupation-a-new-understanding/
Our third and prestigious success is Valeria Luiselli who became not only an international but a serious literary success with the publication of Lost Children Archive (2019), Tell me How It Ends (2017), and The Story of My Teeth (2015).
