What Rape Investigations Get Wrong, A Murder Mystery in Borneo, West Virginia Walkout

Midday on WNYC | Mar 2, 2018

Pulitzer-Prize winner T. Christian Miller discusses his book A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America, co-authored with Ken Armstrong, about what detectives get wrong in rape cases. Journalist Carl Hoffman tells the story of a Swiss activist who went missing in Borneo, The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure. Novelist and critic Martin Amis discusses his latest collection, The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017. Journalists Jake Zuckerman and Sarah Jones talk about the West Virginia teachers' strike. 

This episode is guest hosted by DW Gibson.

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