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Contested histories in Zimbabwe
22 June 2016 • 1,408 words • Reportage & Criticism
The Zimbabwe International Book Fair, the largest book fair south of the Sahara, is one of few such events to take place entirely in the… more»
At play in the bush of ghosts
27 July 2001 • 4,700 words • Reportage & Criticism
In a career extending over four decades, Ryszard Kapuściński has published book-length accounts of his homeland, Poland, of his travels in Iran and the former Soviet Union, and a collection of reportage from third-world … more»
Symposium in Suffolk
1997 • 835 words • City of Words
It has become the most celebrated dinner-party in the world. Of the eight guests, one is late and one a gatecrasher; several are intoxicated; all… more»
How to annoy a lawyer
June 1996 • 875 words • City of Words
Along with the circulars and invoices and renewal notices in each day’s post—the pleas, demands, rebukes and invitations from persons known and unknown (including, just… more»
A plague of locusts
May 1996 • 1,129 words • City of Words
Two weeks ago the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah returned to his native land for the first time in twenty-two years. He flew to Kismayo, the… more»
Africa’s big men in fact and fiction
23 March 1998 • 858 words • City of Words
At the launch party for The Last King of Scotland, Giles Foden’s novel… more»
An everyday story of pot-boiling folk
February 1996 • 1,072 words • City of Words
Long ago, when Joan Collins was a mute, inglorious vedette and the sex-and-shopping… more»
Bonfire of the billets doux
29 June 1998 • 1,080 words • City of Words
I don’t suppose Martha Gellhorn ever corresponded with the Queen Mother. If she did the letters between them are unlikely to have survived. The American… more»
Craftsmen of Hokkaido
November 1995 • 1,140 words • City of Words
A package arrives from my old teacher, from Japan. “Printed matter,” it says on the outside, “no commercial value”. But the contents are precious. For… more»
Back to the mystic
15 February 1999 • 1,057 words • City of Words
I’m drunk and you’re insane / Who’s going to lead us home? It’s good to know, if you’ve been drinking, that a mystical poet is there… more»
