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Christine Kenneally has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Monthly. Her 2018 Buzzfeed article, \u201cThe Ghosts of the Orphanage,\u201d was nominated for a National Magazine Award.\n\n\n\n"I understood that the abuse was a big part of the story. But the thing that really hooked me and disturbed me and I wouldn\u2019t forget was the depersonalization that went on in these places. It wasn\u2019t just that the records had been lost along the way. It became really clear that the information was intentionally withheld, and it was all part of just this extraordinary depersonalization that happened to these kids.\u201d\n\n\n\nThanks to MailChimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\n\n@chriskenneally\n\n\nChristine Kenneally on Longform\n\n\n[8:25] The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Christine Kenneally \u2022 Penguin Books \u2022 2007)\n\n\n[14:05] "The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures" (Christine Kenneally \u2022 Penguin Books \u2022 2015)\n\n\n[21:18] Kenneally\u2019s New Yorker archive\n\n\n[22:22] "The Inferno" (New Yorker \u2022 Oct 2009)\n\n\n[24:53] "We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph\u2019s Catholic Orphanage" (Buzzfeed News \u2022 Aug 2018)\n\n\n[25:21] "The Deepest Cut" (New Yorker \u2022 June 2006)\n\n\n[51:07] Spotlight\n\n\n[51:20] Pennsylvania Diocese Victims Report\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices