News: January 2008 Archives
The Revolution Fades
The tangerine sunlight, deepening and sweetening as dusk approaches, strokes the peeling stucco of Havana's colonial ruins, every doorway teeming with life, every window framing faces and pouring out music.But what everyone knows - every leather-skinned believer in the revolution,......more
A new kind of foreign coverage?
A year ago the Boston Globe newspaper closed its last three foreign bureaux. The closures followed the axing of four foreign correspondents from the Daily Telegraph in September 2006.Writing in the Washington Post, Pamela Constable summed up the misery: "Between......more
A Model American
A Model American, Elsie Burch Donald's third novel, is a twist on the classic saga of "normal" westerners dumped in weird surroundings. How do they cope? The lead characters are two middle-aged American tourists: Bill Bolton, a rich, successful businessman;......more
Small wars permitting, dispatches from foreign land
Part memoir, part previously-published reportage, Small Wars is a romp through twenty years of Christina Lamb's career as a foreign correspondent. Her tale begins with a personal invitation from Benazir Bhutto to her ill-fated wedding to Asif Zardari. Lamb displays......more
Under the Turkish cosh
In their own different ways, Diyarbakir, Hasankeyf and Hakkari are trying to cope with events that have become more than a regional struggle between the Turkish state and its Kurdish minority.The run-down city of Diyarbakir remains the regional hub and......more