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Mischa Berlinski

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Mischa Berlinski is the author of novels Fieldwork, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Peacekeeping. He has written for the New York Review of Books about Haitian politics, has tried to buy a zombie for Men's Journal, and investigated a woman who married a snake for Harper's Magazine. His writing has appeared in the Best American Essays and the Best American Travel Writing.

He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Addison M. Metcalf Award.
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Fieldwork

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Mona Acts Out

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"While plenty has been written, fiction and nonfiction, about Haiti's political disgraces, natural disasters, cultural enigmas and entrenched dysfunction, Mischa Berlinski's new novel stands out for doing far more than dramatizing news headlines about" Read more of this review »
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"Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning. Her in-laws are there, along with her husband (with whom she is unhappy), her son, and more. Mona is a skilled and experienced Shakespearean actor, soon to begin rehearsals for Cleopatra. Given her age, it" Read more of this review »
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“The world makes you, and then you see it through the eyes it gives you.”
Mischa Berlinski, Peacekeeping

“The world makes you, and then you see it through the eyes it gives you. Another man sees the same world, but he doesn't have the same eyes.”
Mischa Berlinski, Peacekeeping

“Mona sat in the late-fall sunshine outside Vanessa Levin’s house and wondered why she had been so resistant to that thought, which seemed to her now both true and slightly banal. Of course she’d been after a daddy—just like Vanessa back then, both of them agreeing to sleep with Milton, and worship Milton, to substitute for inadequate paternal love, just like so many other women in Milton’s complicated little harem over the years. And not just Milton’s harem: Cleopatra went through one powerful older Roman general after another. Mona married Phil. Sheila married Bruce. None of it was so mysterious or subtle at all, or so terrible for that matter: at the end of the long day, a good daddy was a good thing to have.”
Mischa Berlinski, Mona Acts Out: A Novel

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