![]() ![]() Keefe’s profile of Astrid focuses on the relationship between the siblings. In “Crime Family,” Keefe introduces notorious Dutch criminal Wim Holleeder’s trial for murder, where his sister Astrid is the chief witness against him. Koch takes up a crusade to expose the world of wine forgery and its causes. ![]() Bill Koch, the scion of a famous industrialist family and a successful businessman in his own right, purchases a Jefferson bottle and discovers that there is no tangible evidence of its authenticity. Keefe opens the work with “The Jefferson Bottles,” in which a famous cache of wine believed to come from the collection of the third president of the United States sparks a broader controversy about the extent of fraud in the rarefied world of those who sell and purchase extremely rare wines. His 2021 work, Empire of Pain, is a history of the Sackler Family and the American pharmaceutical industry, including the public health crisis around opioid use disorder and deaths by overdose.Ĭontent warning: This work includes discussions of suicide, substance use disorder, sudden death, gun violence, and domestic abuse. His 2018 book, Say Nothing, about sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In addition to his longform journalism, Keefe has achieved significant recognition for his narrative nonfiction works. ![]()
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