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Makana Eyre

Paris

Journalist at Freelance

Paris-based journalist. SING, MEMORY out now from @WWNorton. Work in @WSJ, @WashingtonPost, @TheNation, @Guardian, @ForeignPolicy, @Atavist, @CJR etc.

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  • 2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Makana Eyre

    In my family, tales of anti-Chinese racism are passed from one generation to the next. A century ago, my great-grandparents, Wallace and Tungert Chong, were forced to get special documentation — visas, in effect — to travel to the U.S. mainland from Hawaii, even though they were American citizens. A decade later, a White college counselor forbade their son, my grandfather, Walbert Chong, from taking the MIT entrance exam.

  • 1 month ago | airmail.news | Makana Eyre |Phineas Rueckert

    On a drizzly Wednesday in March, Swiss police arrested a man standing alone at a Bitcoin A.T.M. near Geneva Airport, ending a nearly year-long manhunt. Hours earlier, the 61-year-old had reportedly bought a one-way ticket to Dubai. All that was left was to convert a supposedly large crypto-currency ransom he’d wrangled into cash. Then, presumably, he would vanish—leaving behind what federal authorities describe as a campaign of violence that had quietly terrorized Geneva.

  • 2 months ago | airmail.news | Makana Eyre

    Once, in a passing chat with the concierge in my Paris apartment building, I learned that a tenant—who had lived in my unit for decades—was a mistress of the great singer and actor Jacques Brel. He called on this woman in the early 1970s at her apartment in northeast Paris, in the old Quartier du Combat, and took her out on the town. Where did they go? The concierge couldn’t say. Once they left the building, they were beyond her realm.

  • Dec 16, 2023 | pressherald.com | Makana Eyre

    When news broke in May 1933 that Nazis had staged book burnings across Germany, the American response was swift and angry. Nearly 200,000 people streamed onto the streets of cities across the country in protest. Authors, some of whose books had been burned, condemned the censorship. President Franklin D.

  • Dec 15, 2023 | estadao.com.br | Makana Eyre

    THE WASHINGTON POST - Quando, em maio de 1933, foi divulgada a notícia de que os nazistas haviam queimado livros em toda a Alemanha, a resposta americana foi rápida e furiosa. Quase 200 mil pessoas saíram às ruas de cidades de todo o país em protesto. Autores, alguns dos quais tiveram seus livros queimados, condenaram a censura. O então presidente Franklin D.

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Makana Eyre
Makana Eyre @makanaeyre
7 Dec 23

My latest work for the @washingtonpost's book review👇. https://t.co/LlHAvYIHVq

Makana Eyre
Makana Eyre @makanaeyre
24 Oct 23

RT @AirMailWeekly: Members of La Famille cult have been living in secrecy in central Paris for over 200 years. Now, their customs are final…

Makana Eyre
Makana Eyre @makanaeyre
24 Oct 23

RT @hawaiibookmusic: TODAY at 6pm HST, meet the author of “Sing, Menory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of The Nazi Ca…