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The long day of the short paragraph
21 July 1995 • 1,335 words • City of Words
Every book lover is a bibliokleptomane. The Maasai of East Africa, it has been said, consider that all cattle in the world belong to them.… more»
The return of deep throat
2 February 1998 • 848 words • City of Words
The White House sex scandal can’t be said to have advanced the cause of truth in politics; but it has staked out, for better or… more»
Dressing up for the election
April 1997 • 860 words • City of Words
They had their gimmicks, the old guard: Disraeli with a primrose on his lapel; Churchill a bowtie and cigar; Harold Wilson a pipe and Gannex… more»
The road to Abyei
1989 • 13,409 words • Reportage & Criticism
Mark drove us back from the party on Street Thirty-one in his new Land Rover pick-up, just shipped from Port Sudan. We took a wrong turning on Sharia el-Nil … more»
Zero Grazing
2 November 1992 • 4,925 words • Reportage & Criticism
Seventy-four years ago a viral pandemic began in America, most likely on a pig farm in Iowa. Fifteen months later it had killed over eighteen… more»
The Sudan Handbook
Edited by John Ryle, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo and Jok Madut Jok
2011 • 392 words • Books
The handbook covers Sudan, South Sudan and the North-South borderlands. It offers an authoritative introduction to the two countries, rooted in an historical account of the development of the state. The book comprises a set of eighteen essays by specialists including Abdelrahman Ali Mohammed, Peter Woodward, Gérard Prunier, Jérôme Tubiana, Derek Welsby, and Ahmad Sikainga. It is edited by John Ryle, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo and Jok Madut Jok. … more»
Elegia 1938
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987)
16 November, 2001 • 370 words • Translations
Joyless work in a decaying world.
No picture fits; no pattern holds.
You struggle on like others, feeling heat and cold … more»
