Philip Gourevitch has 3 media appearances. Booknotes: Philip Gourevitch (November 22, 1998) Philip Gourevitch discusses We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. "Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutusif that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and ... (more)in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute. The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for The New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? from the publisher's website
Charlie Rose: A conversation with Philip Gourevitch (August 13, 2008) A conversation with Philip Gourevitch, author and editor of *The Paris Review*.
To The Best of Our Knowledge: Philip Gourevitch (November 15, 2009 at) Philip Gourevitch discusses Standard Operating Procedure.
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