Lauren Markham is the author of\xa0The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life\xa0and has written for\xa0The New York Times Magazine,\xa0The Guardian, and\xa0VQR. Her new book is\xa0A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.\n\u201cIt took me a while to figure out that this is actually a book about storytelling, about journalistic storytelling, about the kind of myths we spin culturally and politically, about history, about current events, and the role of journalism within all of that, and my role as a journalist.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@LaurenMarkham_\n\nlaurenmarkham.info\n\nMarkham on Longform\n\n01:00\xa0The Far Away Brothers\xa0(Crown \u2022 2018)\n\n03:00oaklandinternational.org\n\n\n28:00\xa0How the Word Is Passed\xa0(Clint Smith \u2022 Little, Brown and Company \u2022 2021)\n\n38:00\xa0\u201cHow Greece Secretly Adopted the World\u2019s Most Brazen\u2014and Brutal\u2014Way of Keeping Out Refugees\u201d\xa0(Mother Jones \u2022 March 2022)\n\n44:00\xa0\u201cFor Me, With Love and Squalor\u201d\xa0(Longreads \u2022 June 2018)\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices