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Arvind Dilawar

Arvind Dilawar is a writer and editor. His articles, interviews, and essays on everything from the spacesuits of the future to love in the time of visas have appeared in Newsweek, The Guardian, Vice, and elsewhere.

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EXPLOITED

You Probably Have a Migrant Worker to Thank for Your Milk

In dairy-rich states like Wisconsin, migrants—many undocumented—make up 40 percent of the workers on dairy farms that utterly depend on this labor source.

Arvind Dilawar

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HELPING HANDS

The Next Time You Admire a Picasso, Thank a Lesbian

Diana Souhami’s new book, “No Modernism Without Lesbians,” spotlights the women who ensured history would remember artists like Picasso, Joyce, and Eliot.

Arvind Dilawar

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EYE OF NEWT?

Meet the Witches Who Are Hexing Trump’s Re-Election

An anti-Trump super PAC has enlisted witchcraft to doom the president’s chances of a second term.

Arvind Dilawar

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DECISIVE MOMENTS

Protests Before the Age of Trump Had a Very Different Vibe

Photographer Kevin Bubriski’s recent book, “Our Voices, Our Streets,” captures an era of struggle more distant than time suggests.

Arvind Dilawar

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EYEWITNESS

She Boarded a Crowded Refugee Ship. It Sank. She Filmed It.

In 2015, Syrian refugee Amel Alzakout boarded a smuggler’s boat going from Turkey to Greece. Her documentation of the boat’s sinking has now become a stirring documentary.

Arvind Dilawar

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SHOT BY SHOT

Avedon’s Right Hand Man Pulls the Curtain Back on His Boss

The illustrious photographer’s longtime studio manager, Gideon Lewin, reveals the master’s working process in a new book, “Avedon: Behind the Scenes 1964-1980.”

Arvind Dilawar

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BACK TO THE LAND

Anarchists’ Unlikely Tool to Fight Climate Change—Farming

With no faith in government, some radicals are hoping to provide for themselves and their neighbors through the land and each other.

Arvind Dilawar

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SHATTERED

Photographers Who Bear Witness to War Pay a Steep Price

In "Shooting War," neuropsychiatrist Anthony Feinstein examines the impact of war, natural disasters, and other crises on the photographers who document them.

Arvind Dilawar

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BEYOND THE FRINGE

Looking Under the Hood: 14 Years Photographing White Power

From Klansmen in Kentucky to Nazis in Pennsylvania, Anthony Karen has documented the white power movement across the U.S.

Arvind Dilawar

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TWO TRAGEDIES

How the Nazis Used the Rule of Law Against Jewish Lawyers

A new book on the persecution of Jewish lawyers under the Third Reich ably documents a dark history—but fails to acknowledge the complicity of the law.

Arvind Dilawar

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