Would you like to know something interesting that I have in common with James Comey? We both had the embarrassing misapprehension when we first heard of Purdue Pharma that it was linked to Perdue Farms, as in chicken.  This speaks to the success of the Sackler family campaign to keep their name, and their business interests, largely out of the public eye for a long time. This excellent book by Patrick Radden Keefe (author of Say Nothing, another empathetic and informative book) exposes the Sackler family […]

Jean McConville, mother of 10, disappeared in December of 1972 after being abducted from a run-down Belfast flat. Her children never saw her again. The story of what happened to her is the focal point of this panoramic look at the sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland popularly known as The Troubles. Patrick Radden Keefe ranges from the McConville case in his reporting, but her disappearance is a prism offering a view on the whole confusing era. It’s tempting from across the ocean to view The […]