Nina Berman: 3 books

We've all suffered indignities. These are the mundane interactions with other people that cause us pain, whether it's a cruel put-down by a friend about the way we look or a stranger cutting us off in traffic. We live in a world where we are constantly told, "Don't sweat the small stuff," but the truth...

In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between...

Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also supported by close relationships between Kenyans and European immigrants and tourists. Nina Berman looks carefully at the repercussions that these economic...