Media Appearances

Harper’s, February 2024:
“A fascinating and excellent book … built upon decades of scholarship and interviews.” — Rachel Kushner
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India Today review, January 5, 2024:
“Fascinating and heartbreaking.… In a sense, the book is a meditation on what it means to be civilised, to acknowledge the humanity of those who live differently.” —Srinath Perur
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 Adam Goodheart interview with Francesca Rheannon on Writer’s Voice Podcast, January 2024
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Washington Post review, November 30, 2023:
“A deft combination of adventure, history, reportage and elegy.” — Michael Dirda
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Adam Goodheart, “They Live in Isolation — But the World Won’t Leave Them Alone,”
National Geographic, November 2023
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Adam Goodheart, “Why Uncontacted Tribes Want to Stay Uncontacted:
The Life and Afterlife of a Monstrous Victorian Adventurer,”
The Atlantic, October 13, 2023
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Adam Goodheart, “A Century Before the Residents of a Remote Island Killed a Christian Missionary,
Their Predecessors Resisted the British Empire,”
Smithsonian, September 25, 2023
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“ ‘The Mission’ Review: Blinded by the Light,”
New York Times, October 12, 2023
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David Canfield, “A Missionary Died at 26 on a Doomed Quest. A New Documentary Confronts What Led Him There,”
Vanity Fair, October 5, 2023
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“Review of The Last Island,”
Foreword Reviews, September/October 2023
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“‘The Mission,’ About Young Man Killed in an Attempt to Convert Indigenous Islanders, Provokes Passionate Reaction in Telluride,”
Deadline, September 2, 2023
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“Author Spotlight: Adam Goodheart,”
Baker & Taylor Forecast, September 2023
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“ ‘The Mission’ Review: An Empathetic and Sobering Doc Reconstructs the Life of a Missionary Killed on a Remote Island,”
Hollywood Reporter, August 31, 2023
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“The Last Island: A thrilling book that will leave you contemplating the meaning of civilization,”
Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2023
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