Strangers Drowning

Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her subjects have included John Ashbery, Barack Obama and Noam Chomsky, among many others. Before joining the magazine, she was a senior editor at Lingua Franca and an advisory editor at The Paris Review. She lives in New York.Daringly conceived, brilliantly executed - may change not just how you see the world, but how you live in itChilling and utterly absorbing... Combining critical analysis with compassion, the book's t