“The literary style of New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe is already iconic… Keefe delivers masterpieces in miniature.” - Oprah Daily “A collection…of astounding variety, each more riveting and extraordinary than the last.” - Booklist (starred review)

Immensely enjoyable writing married with fascinating subjects makes this a must-read.”- Publisher’s Weekly (starred review) “ superlative collection… Every one of these selections is a journalistic gem. It’s highly entertaining, of course, but what shines through most brightly is Keefe’s fascination with what makes us human even when we’re at our most imperfect.” - Los Angeles Times “Rogues” is a collection of Keefe’s New Yorker articles about criminals and con artists and more.

“A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds you’ll be turning pages for hours. ROGUES: True Stories of Grifters, Killers Rebels and Crooks. What about.NOW AVAILABLE! An instant New York Times Bestseller. Utter the name Jean McConville and someone would say, What about Bloody Sunday? To which you could say, What about Bloody Friday? To which they could say, What about Pat Finucane? What about the La Mon bombing? What about the Ballymurphy massacre? What about Enniskillen? What about McGurk’s bar? What about. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic group, sometimes even at the edge of a village.” When it came to the Troubles, a phenomenon known as “whataboutery” took hold. Must it be the case that how one perceives a tragedy will forever depend on where one sits? The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, “for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. Of course, even if one were to concede, for the sake of argument, that McConville was an informer, there is no moral universe in which her murder and disappearance should be justified. To others, she was not a victim at all, but a combatant by proxy, who courted her own fate. To many, Jean McConville was the perfect victim: a widow, a mother of ten. “According to one scholar, the “ideal victim” in the Troubles was someone who was not a combatant, but a passive civilian.

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe