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Maud Newton

Contributor

Maud Newton

Maud Newton is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, Narrative, Granta, the New York Times Book Review, the Oxford American, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. She's writing a book for Random House about the science and superstition of ancestry.

Articles by Maud Newton

An Introduction to Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
By Maud Newton
“Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are,” a cholera germ announces in one of Twain's stories, “there's always somebody to look down on!”No recent novel…