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Book Talk: Eric L. Lewis — Leaving Guantanamo-with David Remnick
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February 9, 2026
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48:35Now PlayingWatch author Eric L. Lewis' book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
This multilayered work follows a group of Guantanamo detainees from a single Middle Eastern country, Kuwait, portraying their lives before their capture, to their experience at Guantanamo, to their ultimate release and the lives they have been challenged in remaking after returning home. It is an intimate look at real men held for years without charge and without hope. Eric L. Lewis has represented Guantanamo detainees for more than twenty years and he conducted the hearings that gained the release of the last two Kuwaiti 'forever prisoners.' As part of a committed team, he spent time with these men and their families, fighting to gain access to courts and navigating the politics and diplomacy of the Global War on Terror. As well as telling the story of his time with the Guantanamo detainees, Lewis also analyzes how Guantanamo has changed American law and culture, and how its legacy continues today.
Eric Lewis is a human rights lawyer, Chair of the law firm Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss, and President of Reprieve US. Mr. Lewis, along with Reprieve, has represented over seventy Guantanamo detainees, and oversees the Life After Guantanamo project for returned detainees. He holds degrees from Princeton, Yale and Cambridge.
Lewis is in conversation with David Remnick, he has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and before that was a staff writer for the magazine for six years. He was previously The Washington Post’s correspondent in the Soviet Union. He is the author of several books, including Holding the Note and King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, named the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine in 1998, and Lenin’s Tomb, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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