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    -WIKIPEDIA: Patrick Radden Keefe
    -AUTHOR SITE: Patrick Radden Keefe
    -ENTRY: Patrick Radden Keefe (New America)
    -ENTRY: Patrick Radden Keefe (Good Reads)
    -ENTRY: Keefe, Patrick Radden 1976– (Encyclopedia.com)
    -WIKIPEDIA: Say Nothing (book)
    -BOOK SITE: Say Nothing Book (Penguin Random House)
    -ENTRY: say Nothing (Good Reads)
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    -INDEX: Patrick Radden Keefe (NY Times)
    -INDEX: Patrick Radden Keefe (MuckRack)
    -INDEX: Patrick Radden Keefe (The New Yorker)
    -INDEX: Patrick Radden Keefe (Long Reads)
    -INDEX: Patrick Radden Keefe (CrimeReads)
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    -ESSAY PICKS: Sunday Reading: The World of Patrick Radden Keefe (The New Yorker, March 3, 2019)
    -VIDEO ARCHIVES: “patrick radden keefe” (YouTube)
    -PODCAST ARCHIVE: “patrick radden keefe” (ListenNotes)
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    -ESSAY: The Car-Crash Conspiracy: High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. (Patrick Radden Keefe, April 13, 2026, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Where the Bodies Are Buried: Gerry Adams has long denied being a member of the I.R.A. But his former compatriots claim that he authorized murder. (Patrick Radden Keefe, March 9, 2015, The New Yorker)
    -PODCAST: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland: A Conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe (Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities, Nov 27, 2019, New Books Network)
    -PODCAST: Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: Memory and History on Screen: Join us for a conversation on Say Nothing, a story of the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland—now a series streaming on Hulu. (New America, 1/13/25)
    -PODCAST: Dua Lipa In Conversation With Patrick Radden Keefe, Author Of Say Nothing (Dua Lipa, Jun 7, 2024 Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa
    -ESSAY: Cocaine Incorporated: Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel is a complex, multi-billion-dollar business operating in more than a dozen countries.(Patrick Radden Keefe, June 15, 2012, NY Times Magazine)
    -PODCAST: Wind of Change: Did the CIA write a power ballad that ended the Cold War? (Patrick Radden Keefe, Crooked Media)
    -ESSAY: A Loaded Gun (Patrick Radden Keefe, February 3, 2013, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: A Shortsighted Eye in the Sky (Patrick Radden Keefe, Feb. 5, 2005, NY Times)
    -ESSAY: The Power—and the Responsibility—of True Crime Writing: "From childhood, we are hardwired to be fascinated by danger, and by the dark potential of other humans." (Patrick Radden Keefe, 7/30/20, Crime Reads)
    -ESSAY: Digital Underground (Patrick Radden Keefe, February 8, 2005, Village Voice)
    -ESSAY: Big Brother and the Bureaucrats (Patrick Radden Keefe, Aug. 10, 2005, NY Times)
    -ESSAY: I Spy: Amateur satellite spotters can track everything government spymasters blast into orbit. Except the stealth bird codenamed Misty. (Patrick Radden Keefe, Feb 1, 2006, Wired)
    -ESSAY: Can Network Theory Thwart Terrorists? (Patrick Radden Keefe, March 12, 2006, NY Times Magazine)
    -ESSAY: The Snakehead: The criminal odyssey of Chinatown’s Sister Ping. (Patrick Radden Keefe, April 17, 2006, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: The Idol Thief: Inside one of the biggest antiquities-smuggling rings in history. (Patrick Radden Keefe, April 30, 2007, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Snakeheads and Smuggling: The Dynamics of Illegal Chinese Immigration (Patrick Radden Keefe, Spring 2009, World Policy Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Last Testament of a Former I.R.A. Terrorist: A documentary film sheds new light on a notorious murder in Northern Ireland. (Patrick Radden Keefe, April 26, 2018, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Travels with Anthony Bourdain (Patrick Radden Keefe, June 8, 2018, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister: Astrid Holleeder secretly recorded her brother’s murderous confessions. Will he exact revenge? (Patrick Radden Keefe, July 30, 2018, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Why Were a Filmmaker and a Journalist Arrested in Northern Ireland? (Patrick Radden Keefe, October 19, 2018, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: How a Script Doctor Found His Own Voice: For decades, Scott Frank earned up to three hundred thousand dollars a week rewriting other people’s screenplays-from “Saving Private Ryan” to “The Ring.” Finally, he decided to stop playing ventriloquist. (Patrick Radden Keefe, 12/25/23, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: How Larry Gagosian Reshaped the Art World: The dealer has been so successful selling art to masters of the universe that he has become one of them. (Patrick Radden Keefe, July 24, 2023, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: A Juror Explains Why a C.I.A. Hacker Was Convicted: In a retrial, prosecutors made a persuasive case that Joshua Schulte had leaked hacking tools as an act of petty revenge against agency colleagues. (Patrick Radden Keefe, July 26, 2022, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge: A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency’s hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues? (Patrick Radden Keefe, June 6, 2022, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: José Andrés Feeds Ron Howard, Then Feeds Him Some More: The two friends discuss their new documentary, “We Feed People,” and how the chef’s World Central Kitchen has served twenty million hot meals to displaced Ukrainians since February. (Patrick Radden Keefe, May 16, 2022, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London: From banking to boarding schools, the British establishment has long been at their service, discretion guaranteed. (Patrick Radden Keefe, March 17, 2022, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Jordan Thomas’s Army of Whistle-Blowers: The lawyer and his clients have made millions by exposing one Wall Street crime after another. But are they changing the industry? (Patrick Radden Keefe, January 17, 2022, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: An Astounding List of Artists Helped Persuade the Met to Remove the Sackler Name: Richard Serra, Kara Walker, and Ai Weiwei were among a group of more than seventy that quietly pressured the museum to end its association with the family that made a fortune on the opioid crisis. (Patrick Radden Keefe, December 10, 2021, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Philip Montgomery’s Up-Close Portrait of an America in Crisis: For nearly a decade, the photographer has been chronicling the country’s historic struggles, with an intimacy that can be achieved only by getting uncomfortably close. (Patrick Radden Keefe, November 11, 2021, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: An Insider from the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Speaks Out: A new memoir by a victims’ advocate describes a process that seemed fixed from the start. (Patrick Radden Keefe, September 20, 2021, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld: After Zac Brettler mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his grieving parents discovered that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son. Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death? (Patrick Radden Keefe, February 5, 2024, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: The Sackler Family’s Plan to Keep Its Billions: The Trump Administration is poised to make a settlement with Purdue Pharma that it can claim as a victory for opioid victims. But the proposed outcome would leave the company’s owners enormously wealthy—and off the hook for good. (Patrick Radden Keefe, October 4, 2020, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Why Private Eyes Are Everywhere Now: Private investigators have been touted as an antidote to corruption and a force for transparency. But they’ve also become another weapon in the hands of corporate interests. (Patrick Radden Keefe, September 28, 2020, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Separating the Myth from the Man in the El Chapo Verdict (Patrick Radden Keefe, February 13, 2019, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success: With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency. (Patrick Radden Keefe, December 27, 2018, The New Yorker)
    -LECTURE: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Opioid Crisis, the Sacklers, and the Unsavory Game of Philanthropic Reputation Laundering: From His Speech at the 2022 Edinburgh International Book Festival Via Baillie Gifford Prize (Patrick Radden Keefe, November 14, 2022, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: The Cult of Secrecy: America’s Classification Crisis (Patrick Radden Keefe, February 13, 2023, Foreign Affairs)
    -ESSAY: The Family That Built an Empire of Pain: The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts (Patrick Radden Keefe, 10/23/17, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: The Hunt for El Chapo (Patrick Radden Keefe, April 28, 2014, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Buried Secrets (Patrick Radden Keefe, July 1, 2013, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: A Loaded Gun (Patrick Radden Keefe, February 3, 2013, The New Yorker)
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    -ESSAY: Patrick Radden Keefe On The Art Of Investigative Journalism (Patrick Radden Keefe, June 4, 2024, Service95)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Patrick Radden Keefe on Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” (Patrick Radden Keefe, January 11, 2026, The New Yorker)
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    -INTERVIEW: A gangster, a bogus inheritance and a dead 19-year-old: the mystery Patrick Radden Keefe couldn’t ignore: When Zac Brettler jumped to his death in London, the coroner recorded an open verdict, admitting: ‘I don’t know what happened.’ The acclaimed author of Say Nothing and, now, London Falling, talks about his search for answers (Anna Moore, 7 Apr 2026, The Guardian)
    -PROFILE: Can a Journalist Be a Celebrity Anymore?: Patrick Radden Keefe’s carefully applied ambition has propelled him to a rarefied perch. (Jonah E. Bromwich, April 2, 2026, NY Times)
    -PROFILE: Behind the Cover Story: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Sinaloa Drug Cartel (Rachel Nolan, June 18, 2012, NY Times)
    -PROFILE: For Him, the Delight Is in the Digging: Patrick Radden Keefe has investigated human smuggling, government espionage and the Northern Ireland conflict. With “Empire of Pain,” he takes on the Sackler family and the opioid crisis ( MJ Franklin, April 8, 2021, NY Times Book Review)
    -ESSAY: An American Reporter in Belfast: How a New Yorker Writer Got So Much Wrong in His Bestselling Book On The Troubles (Ed Moloney, 5/02/129, CounterPunch)
    -PODCAST: Poured Over: Patrick Radden Keefe on Rogues (Miwa Messer / June 28, 2022, B&N Reads: Poured Over)
    -PROFILE: Patrick Radden Keefe: ‘Gerry Adams is sort of similar to the Sacklers, in that he seems to sleep quite well at night’: The long-form journalist reflects on a remarkable career investigating, among others, cartel bosses, arms dealers, mass shooters, fraudsters, whistleblowers and the Troubles (Patrick Freyne, Jul 02 2022, Irish Times)
    -INTERVIEW: Patrick Radden Keefe on Secrets, Lies, and the Murky Line Between Licit and Illicit: "What gets blessed? Who gets out of jail free? And who doesn’t?...I’m interested in that murky netherworld..." (Kevin Canfield, 7/01/22, CrimeReads)
    -INTERVIEWS: Patrick Radden Keefe (Literary Society of the Southwest)
    -PROFILE: Dorchester native breaks new ground in latest book on IRA murder case (Dan Sheehan, 2/28/19, Dorchester Reporter)
    -INTERVIEW: Milton in the World: Patrick Radden Keefe ’94 Discusses Say Nothing and Writing (Oct 19, 2020, Milton Academy)
    -PROFILE: Celebrated New Yorker Writer Enlisted as Model: How do you follow up a couple best-selling books? If you’re Patrick Radden Keefe, you star in a J. Crew ad. (Jacob Gallagher, Jan. 9, 2025, NY Times)
    -PODCAST: Patrick Radden Keefe on taking “Say Nothing” from book to TV show (Gilbert Cruz, 11/15/24, NY Times Book Review Podcast)
    -INTERVIEW: Patrick Radden Keefe Has One Big Rule for His Reading Time: “My iPhone must be dead, or secured in a lockbox of some sort,” says the journalist and author, whose latest book is the true-crime collection “Rogues.” (NY Times Book Review, 6/23/22)
    -PODCAST: Patrick Radden Keefe on ”Empire of Pain” (Pamela Paul, 4/23/21, NY Times Book Review Podcast)
    -INTERVIEW: Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe: ‘I’ve always been interested in secrecy’: The American journalist and author on his history of the Sacklers, the family at the centre of the US opioids controversy, and a special night with the Scorpions in Ukraine (Tim Lewis, 16 May 2021, The Guardian)
    -INTERVIEW: Patrick Radden Keefe on exposing the Sackler family’s links to the opioid crisis: The journalist tracked the billionaire arts philanthropists’ role in the OxyContin scandal in his gripping bestseller, Empire of Pain. He talks about reputation laundering – and why the bad guys are still getting away with it (Sean O’Hagan, 27 Feb 2022, The Guardian)
    -PODCAST: Patrick Radden Keefe, author of SAY NOTHING and the new EMPIRE OF PAIN (Penguin Random House, Jun 16, 2021 Books Connect Us podcast)
    -INTERVIEW: Whatever You Say … Say Nothing: An Interview with Patrick Radden Keefe: Benedict Cosgrove interviews Patrick Radden Keefe, author of “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.” (Benedict Cosgrove, April 21, 2019, LA Review of Books)
    -INTERVIEW: The Say Nothing author on what he looks for in a story and his intriguing Australian connection (Rob Harris, January 10, 2026, Sydney Morning Herald)
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    -REVIEW ESSAY: Was a ’90s Scorpions Song the Work of the C.I.A.? This Podcast Is on It: A new show hosted by Patrick Radden Keefe explores the possibility that the West German metal band’s hit “Wind of Change” was actually a bit of Cold War espionage (Hilary Moss, May 8, 2020, NY Times)
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    -STUDY GUIDE: Say Nothing (So Brief)
    -STUDY GUIDE: Say Nothing Summary and Key Themes (Books That Slay, October 31, 2023)
    -STUDY GUIDE: Book Summary: Say Nothing by Patrick Keefe (5 minute Book Summary)
    -STUDY GUIDE: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (SuperSummary)
    -REVIEW INDEX: Patrick Radden Keefe (Kirkus)
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    -REVIEW: ‘Say Nothing’ — Part History, Part True Crime — Illuminates the Bitter Conflict in Northern Ireland (Roddy Doyle, Feb. 22, 2019, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of Say Nothing (Jennifer Szalai Feb. 20, 2019, NY Times)
    -REVIEW: Terrorism, Torture and 3,600 Lives Lost: Revisiting ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland: Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book Say Nothing investigates the mystery of a missing mother and reveals a still-raw violent past (Andy Kroll, 2/26/19, Rolling Stone)
    -REVIEW: 'Say Nothing': Murder, Memory And A Masterful History Of The Troubles (Maureen Corrigan, 3/14/19, NPR: Fresh Air)
    -REVIEW: 'Say Nothing' Is A Timely Warning That Ireland's Old Wounds Are Easily Opened (Paddy Hirsch, 2/25/19, NPR)
    -REVIEW: of Say Nothing (Devlin Barrett, 3/08/19, Washington Post)
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    -REVIEW: ‘Say Nothing’ Says Everything in Account of Ireland’s Troubles (Allison Schneider, October 23, 2024, Fordham Ram)
    -REVIEW: How Conflicts End—And Who Can End Them: A new book about the Troubles in Northern Ireland is a detective story about an unsolved murder. It’s also an examination of the cost of achieving peace. (David A. Graham, 3/03/19, The Atlantic)
    -REVIEW: of Say Nothing (Susan Knisely, Nebraska Library Commission)
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    -REVIEW: of The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe (Janet Maslin, Aug. 16, 2009, NY Times)
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    -REVIEW: of The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe review – through hell and high water: Published in the UK for the first time, the Empire of Pain author’s tireless investigation of human trafficking from China to the US reveals the desperation of the migrants and the woman at the heart of it (Tim Adams, 5 Feb 2023, The Guardian)
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    -REVIEW: of 'Chatter' Dispatches From the Secret World Of Global Eavesdropping By Patrick Radden Keefe (William Grimes, March 2, 2005, NY Times)
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    -REVIEW: of Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe review – all the moral power of a Victorian novel: This prizewinning account of a band of brothers who struck gold with the opioid OxyContin is a masterfully told story of corruption and greed (Andrew Anthony, 28 Nov 2021, The Guardian)
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    -REVIEW: of Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe : Patrick Radden Keefe Lays Bare a Drug Crisis Fueled by Family Greed (John Carreyrou, April 13, 2021, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: In ‘Empire of Pain,’ the American Dynasty Behind OxyContin (Jennifer Szalai, April 9, 2021, NY Times)
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    -REVIEW: of ROGUES: TRUE STORIES OF GRIFTERS, KILLERS, REBELS AND CROOKS by Patrick Radden Keefe: Thought-provoking examinations of human motivation, choices, follies, and morality. (Kirkus)
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    -REVIEW: of LONDON FALLING: A MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN A GILDED CITY AND A FAMILY'S SEARCH FOR TRUTH by Patrick Radden Keefe : An exemplary account of naïveté, wealth, and menace, impeccably told by a top-notch journalist. (Kirkus)
    -REVIEW: 'London Falling': A teenage imposter, an aging gangster and a body in the Thames (Frank Langfitt, 4/04/26, NPR)
    -REVIEW: of London Falling (Mariko Hewer, April 7, 2026, Washington Independent Review of Books)
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    -REVIEW: The 'Say Nothing' TV adaptation isn't a history lesson – but it's haunting nonetheless (Linda Holmes, 11/14/24, NPR)
    -REVIEW: of Say Nothing review – a compelling but fatally flawed account of the Troubles: This gripping adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s bestselling book tells the shocking story of the IRA’s Price sisters, but makes little attempt to hide its sympathies (Lucy Mangan, 14 Nov 2024, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: I’m used to outsiders mangling Belfast’s history. So Say Nothing was a breath of fresh air: The adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book isn’t flawless – but it doesn’t airbrush the complex, messy story of the Troubles (Rachel Connolly, 18 Nov 2024, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: The 'Say Nothing' TV adaptation isn't a history lesson – but it's haunting nonetheless (Linda Holmes, 11/14/24, NPR)
    -REVIEW: Say Nothing: Everything essential about the Northern Ireland conflict left unsaid (Paul Bond, 25 February 2026, World Socialist Website)
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