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Blood River

September 8, 2008

My review of Tim Butcher’s Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart runs in the Sept./Oct./Nov. issue of Bookforum. Butcher was the Telegraph’s Africa correspondent when he set out, in 2004, to retrace H.M. Stanley’s 1874-77 journey along the Congo River. It’s almost as dangerous a trip now as it was back then, and… Continue reading »

Small Wages. Bitter Cold.

August 27, 2008

No, it’s not a job in journalism. The Guardian reports that some intrepid Brits are looking for a hardy soul to accompany them to the South Pole in honor of the 100th anniversary of Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition: A hundred years after the appearance of one of the strangest and least enticing advertisements in newspaper… Continue reading »

Recent Writing

  • Schools of Thought Control
  • The Publishing Ecosystem in the Digital Era: On John B. Thompson’s BOOK WARS
  • A paler shade of white: HAVING AND BEING HAD by Eula Biss

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  • November newsletter: Platform fatigue

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