Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe  is a staff writer at  The New Yorker  and the author, most recently, of the  New York Times  bestseller  Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by  The  New York Times Book Review,   The  Washington Post,   the  Chicago Tribune  and  The  Wall Street Journal, and was named one of the “ 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade” by  Entertainment Weekly. His previous books are  The Snakehead  and  Chatter. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the  Orwell  Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast  Wind of Change.