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1. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Sneha Pathak

   Review of Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul (opens the original)

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   Lyse Doucet checked into Inter-Continental Kabul for the first time after she landed in the city on Christmas day in 1988. As a BBC journalist who was there to report on the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country, she had no idea how long she would be there. She ended up staying close to a year, and was a guest there many times in the years that followed. In The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan, which won the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, Doucet returns to the

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2. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Sneha Pathak

   The children China lost: Review of Barbara Demick’s Daughters of the Bamboo Grove (opens the original)

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   When 28-year-old Zanhua felt a contraction grip her body while trimming vegetables for lunch, she wasn’t afraid of the pain that was about to follow. She had already given birth twice and knew what to expect. She also knew that she would have to give birth to her third child in secret because China strictly enforced the one-child policy. Zanhua and her husband Youdong were aware of punishment and heavy fines that awaited them if they were caught. Still, Zanhua wanted a third child because of t

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