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The Moleskine style
24 October 1993 • 1,737 words • Reportage & Criticism
In The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin’s vagarious book about Australian aboriginal metaphysics and the origins of culture, the reader is introduced, midway through the narrative, to… more»
The editor and the engineer
17 August 2001 • 1,659 words • Reportage & Criticism
Contemporary Ethiopian writing is, by and large, a closed book to English-speaking audiences, although the novel is an established genre in Amharic literature. At this point, at the start… more»
A nomad in a vague terrain
4 December 1997 • 3,422 words • Reportage & Criticism
If Bruce Chatwin had been portly, myopic and mouse-haired,” writes Susannah Clapp, “his life and reputation would have been quite different.” Chatwin’s death would likely… more»
Love without a map
28 June 1990 • 1,426 words • Reportage & Criticism
The fascination of other people’s letters and diaries lies, to a significant extent, in the fact that what seems most private in us is often… more»
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»
It’s guns that do the talking; books that set men free
August 1995 • 1,207 words • City of Words
Kodi Rahmatalla Kodi is in charge of logistics for the Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation… more»
In praise of fact-checkers
October 1995 • 1,147 words • City of Words
Anyone who has been the subject of a news story—or witness to an event that made the news—knows that inaccuracy and selective description, telescoping of… more»
In memoriam: the typewriter
August 1995 • 1,325 words • City of Words
In July 1995—a month ago—the final carriage return sounded for America’s last typewriter manufacturer. So long Smith-Corona. Now you can’t buy a US-made typewriter anywhere.… more»
Fancy footwork at the lifestyle
magazine writers’ workshop
May 1995 • 830 words • City of Words
The other day at the lifestyle magazine writing school, where I specialise in… 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»
