category: Book Reviews

20th Century Horrors, Exhumed

Los Angeles Times | August 15, 2004

The Stone Fields: An Epitah for the Living. By Courtney Angela Brkic

Death and Taxis

The Washington Post | December 24, 2000

This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria. By Karl Maier

The Horror

The Washington Post | August 27, 2000

Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda. By Scott Peterson

James Nachtwey’s Inferno

George | December 1999

For more than a decade, photographer James Nachtwey has chronicled the war zones of the world—Rwanda, Bosnia and Chechnya among them. Now, a new book, Inferno, brings us his vision of hell on earth.

Taken Hostage

The Washington Post | February 21, 1999

In the Cellar. By Jan Philipp Reemtsma

NASA’s Lack of Shuttle Diplomacy

The Washington Post | December 10, 1998

Dragonfly: Nasa and the Crisis Aboard Mir. By Bryan Burrough

Love and Fury in the Balkans

The Washington Post | August 20, 1997

Montenegro. By Starling Lawrence

Rwanda, the Sorrow and the Pity

The Washington Post | August 25, 1996

Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey. By Fergal Keane

A look at oil’s indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it.

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Dispatches from the war in Bosnia, published in 1996 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

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