‘New Yorker’ writer Alexis Okeoto wanted to get past standard journalistic narratives of war and tragedy and show people as flawed, complicated individuals in her new book, ‘A Moonless, Starless Sky.’ She interviewed teens abducted by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, and a girl who escaped from Boko Haram. Also, critic Kevin Whitehead reviews two albums featuring jazz drummer Tom Rainey, and John Powers reviews the new collection of stories, ‘Her Body and Other Parties.’
