Elizabeth Dickinson

5 days ago | almendron.com | Elizabeth Dickinson

In the weeks before Edgar Tumiñá was killed with nine shots to his head, the indigenous leader had taken every precaution to avoid being seen while visiting his family in Toribio, a town in the southwestern part of Colombia called Cauca. Tumi, as everyone knew him, had gotten so many death threats that it had become a monotonous form of terror. “They want me dead”, he told me in November. Three months later, he was assassinated. Tumi was a quiet, muscular man in his late 40s.

1 week ago | foreignaffairs.com | Elizabeth Dickinson

In the weeks before Edgar Tumiñá was killed with nine shots to his head, the indigenous leader had taken every precaution to avoid being seen while visiting his family in Toribio, a town in the southwestern part of Colombia called Cauca. Tumi, as everyone knew him, had gotten so many death threats that it had become a monotonous form of terror. “They want me dead,” he told me in November. Three months later, he was assassinated. Tumi was a quiet, muscular man in his late 40s.

3 weeks ago | libraryjournal.com | Elizabeth Dickinson

. Jun. 2025. 336p. ISBN 9781668045237. $29.99. BIOG COPY ISBN Journalist Dickinson’s first biography restores semi-forgotten American designer Claire McCardell (1905–58) to her rightful place in the fashion pantheon and in feminist history. In a fashion industry then dominated by men, McCardell worked her way up from anonymous designer to household brand name.

1 month ago | hub.jhu.edu | Elizabeth Dickinson

In May 2022, Joshua Sharfstein sat down for a heart-to-heart conversation about COVID-19 with his 78-year-old mother, Margaret. Sharfstein, a Distinguished Professor of the Practice at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, had once been a Baltimore City health commissioner. His mother, a retired pediatrician, was also no stranger to medical discussions. And yet, the topic that day—the months of loneliness, fear, and confusion resulting from the ongoing pandemic—wasn't an easy one to broach.

2 months ago | elpais.com | Elizabeth Dickinson

A Germán, un nombre cambiado por seguridad, le gusta contar historias sobre su barrio en Guayaquil, cuando era un lugar tranquilo en el que los niños jugaban en la calle y donde a menudo había partidos de fútbol y eventos musicales. Hoy, el miedo ha remplazado esa confianza entre vecinos. Nadie se atreve a salir después del atardecer. Muchos niños estudian de manera virtual para evitar el riesgo de una bala perdida. A todos, absolutamente todos, les toca pagar la extorsión.