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b'Sarah A. Topol is a writer-at-large for\\xa0The New York Times Magazine. Her latest feature is\\xa0\\u201dIs Taiwan Next?\\u201d\\n\\u201dI think you never actually ask people head-on about what they\'ve been through. You always ask people to just tell you what they want to tell you about anything that has happened to them\\u2026. This event that happened to you, it doesn\'t define you. It\\u2019s not why I\'m here necessarily. Like, tell me about your childhood. Tell me about your life. Tell me about the things you think are important in your community. And by the time we get to the traumatic part, I hope they\'ve seen enough of who I am and how I interview to feel comfortable telling me that they don\'t want to talk about certain things.\\u201d\\n\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@satopol\\n\\nsarahatopol.com\\n\\nTopol on Longform\\n\\n01:00\\xa0"Is Taiwan Next?"\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Aug 2021)\\n\\n03:00\\xa0"The Schoolteacher and the Genocide"\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Aug 2019)\\n\\n03:00\\xa0"Trained to Kill: How Four Boy Soldiers Survived Boko Haram"\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Jun 2017)\\n\\n03:00\\xa0"Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn\\u2019t Matter."\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Jan 2020)\\n\\n03:00\\xa0"He Played by the Rules of Putin\\u2019s Russia, Until He Didn\\u2019t: The Story of a Murder"\\xa0(New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Feb 2019)\\n\\n03:00\\xa0"Sons and Daughters"\\xa0(Harper\\u2019s \\u2022 Aug 2017)\\n\\n03:00\\xa0"This is How You Start a War: Libya\\u2019s Frantic Fight for the Future"\\xa0(GQ \\u2022 Jun 2011)\\n\\n12:00\\xa0"The Bears Who Came to Town and Would Not Go Away"\\xa0(Outside \\u2022 Jun 2016)\\n\\n30:00\\xa0The Beach\\xa0(Alex Garland \\u2022 Riverhead \\u2022 1997)\\n\\n37:00\\xa0"Tea and Kidnapping"\\xa0(Atlantic \\u2022 Oct 2012)\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'