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Africa & Africans

Iran wrote 1 day ago: “Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say ‘Africa’. In reality … more →

Tags: Africa, ethics, Culture, African, Journalism, identity, Geography, Thoughts, Diversity

"A very stupid, a very dull debate": Werner Herzog weighs in on Kapuściński's "handling of the facts"

w martin wrote 3 days ago: Slate posted an interview with Werner Herzog yesterday in which the German film director’s nar … more →

Tags: After Kapuściński, literary reportage, Werner Herzog

Bookworming

theartoftheblag wrote 2 weeks ago: This month I have mostly been reading: Money by Martin Amis Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer So … more →

Tags: Books, Carl Sagan, Ernest Hemmingway, Martin Amis, Matt Ridley, pico iyer, Robert D. Kaplan

Diversity and War: Canada, A/Stan and Vietnam5 comments

reneethewriter wrote 1 month ago: The Canadian death toll continues to rise. Image courtesy of Master Corporal Doug Desrochers via Fli … more →

Tags: Diversity Matters, CKNW, Hamid Karzai, Bob Rae, SNC-Lavalin, Kandahar province, abdullah abdullah, Ann Jones, Glenn Greenwald

After Kapuściński: The Art of Reportage in the 21st Century, parts I & II1 comment

w martin wrote 1 month ago: David Varno has just posted to Critical Mass, the National Book Critics Circle blog, a summary and d … more →

Tags: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, After Kapuściński, Alastair Reid, Arif Jamal, Eliza Griswold, Elizabeth Rubin, Jane Ciabattari, Joshua Clark, Lawrence Weschler

bom dia, bom dia, mas que belo dia7 comments

Eduarda Sousa wrote 2 months ago: Papei ontem Os Cínicos Não Servem Para Este Ofício de Ryszard Kapuscinski. Não conseguiria descrever … more →

Tags: citação, jornalismo, Literatura, john berger, Os Cínicos Não Servem Para Este Ofício

Travels

westrow wrote 2 months ago: Heading south, and just time to note this, from  Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski, fres … more →

Tags: Books, Herodotus

Bom dia

Eduarda Sousa wrote 2 months ago: «Hoje, se queremos perceber para onde estamos a ir», sustenta Kapuscinski, «não é necessário olhar p … more →

Tags: citação, Literatura, Os Cínicos Não Servem Para Este Ofício, Relógio d'Água

Ryszard Kapuscinski's 'The Other' reviewed in The Age newspaper

versouk wrote 2 months ago: Steven Carroll praises Kapuscinski’s ‘The Other‘ for Melbourne’s The Age. Th … more →

Hello! Przerwa skończona!

w martin wrote 2 months ago: Yes, the hiatus is over! The past 5 weeks have seen, among other things, preparations for three Poli … more →

Tags: Piotr Sommer, Jerzy Pilch, bill johnston, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Eugeniusz Tkaczysyzn-Dycki, Benjamin Paloff, Jacek Dehnel, Dorota Masłowska, Chad Post

Summer Reading List!1 comment

Akhil wrote 3 months ago: Here is a list of the books I read this summer. I loved all of them. ———— … more →

Tags: Check This Out, 1984, Aseem Kaul, Atul Gawande, better, Books, Complications, Études, genocide

Tayeb Salih, Conrad, and the Others

w martin wrote 6 months ago: The new Harper’s (July 2009) has a great review by Robyn Creswell of the late Sudanese writer … more →

Tags: Clare Cavanagh, witold gombrowicz, Joseph Conrad, tayeb salih, NYRB Classics, Aleksander Wat, Robyn Creswell, Harper's Magazine, jamaica kincaid

Ryszard Kapuscinski and the protests in Iran

seandodson wrote 6 months ago: The sudden protest in Tehran burst like a firework onto the internet last night. The Boston Globe pu … more →

Tags: Politics, Journalism, Iran, Islamic revolution, iran protests, Green Revolution, Photojournalism, Boston Globe

Particulars in the fog

mvlturner wrote 7 months ago: Often a small detail can be as telling as a shelfload of description.   I have a horror of generalis … more →

Tags: Reviews of minds and authors, Haile Selassie, vs naipaul, Among the Believers, Jonathan Dimbleby, The Last Emperor, kafka, Neal Ascherson, Henry James on generalisation

Darius and the Scythians

cawdor wrote 8 months ago: I’m still reading Ryszard Kapuscinksi’s Travels With Herodotus. In it he describes the a … more →

Tags: Books, Life, obama, terrosrism, darius, Scythians, Afghanistan

pity you're not like us

peter rudd wrote 8 months ago: Another excerpt from Kapuscinski’s book The Other.  Here he describes the tendency for strong … more →

Tags: Brave New World, racism, ::The Other::, Nationalism

Lapidarium

Joanna wrote 9 months ago: I AM reading Lapidarium and learning to blog… “Man doesn’t think with stories. Our … more →

Tags: lapidarium, Thoughts

Kapuscinski on unemployment

Arhopala Bazaloides wrote 10 months ago: From Travels with Herodotus, a book by Ryszard Kapuscinski: ..neighbourhoods [in third world cities] … more →

Tags: People, India, democracy, Economy, Education, malegaon, Travels with Herodotus, idle magma, mob

the inveterate, avowed rabble

peter rudd wrote 1 year ago: Here is a description of how Europe colonized the world between the Middle Ages and modern times, as … more →

Tags: Brave New World, Europe, Violence, greed, ::The Other::, Colonization, Slavery, Gold, Lust


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