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Violence and power in Brazil
August 2004 • 8,455 words • Reportage & Criticism
How violent is Brazil? Is it more dangerous than other big, modernizing countries of the South? Or is this lurid picture the result of a… more»
Through a lens, darkly
25 November 2005 • 1,205 words • Reportage & Criticism
A quarter of a century on, the mass killings in Cambodia still hold the world record for state terror. No government has murdered a greater… more»
The perfection of the pencil
11 November 1990 • 1,018 words • Reportage & Criticism
In that lowly drawer, the one with the log-jam of dried-up fibre-tips and leaky fountain pens, empty ballpoints and broken wax crayons—all the state-of-the-art writing… more»
The mask of beauty
1986 • 1,658 words • Reportage & Criticism
The Mende are a forest-dwelling West African people, currently numbering about a million, one of the two principal ethnic groups in what is now Sierra… more»
The many voices of Africa
2005 • 2,813 words • Reportage & Criticism
This has been the year of Africa, according to Our Common Interest, the report of the Commission for Africa. It’s been the year when a… more»
The joy of locks
21 April 2000 • 2,596 words • Reportage & Criticism
In Colored People, a memoir of his youth in West Virginia in the 1950s, the writer and critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. devotes a central… more»
The black and white picture show
20 December 1992 • 1,345 words • Reportage & Criticism
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) took pictures of celebrities with their clothes on, and young black men with their clothes off. The celebrities have surnames: Rossellini, Saatchi,… more»
The anxiety of exoticism
20 October 1995 • 4,342 words • Reportage & Criticism
On a bookcase by a window in my house, catching the morning light, is an Akan wooden ritual stool from the Asante kingdom in Ghana,… more»
Margaret Mee and the moonflower
1 August 1988 • 1,836 words • Reportage & Criticism
On the lower stretches of the Rio Negro, the huge brown river that joins the Amazon at Manaus, on the banks of its tree-lined creeks… more»
Invasion of the
body snatchers
30 September 1982 • 2,506 words • Reportage & Criticism
The south-eastern Nuba are one of a number of Nuba groups–partly Islamised but largely unarabised–who live in the southern part of the province of Kordofan,… more»
