Go and Purchase This Book
My brilliant sister who’s doing post-conflict research on a grant from the Wellcome Trust just handed me a book of amazing poetry called The Not Dead by Simon Armitage. I’ll be frank. I normally don’t like poetry, but the poems in this book are so moving and poignant, that I found myself reading and rereading [...]
What We Don’t See
A few days ago I received an email from a US Army sergeant stationed in Iraq. He was writing to tell me how much he wished he had his camera so he could take pictures of the military drawdown going on right now. In lieu of images, he describes a scene in a parking lot [...]
More Brilliant Things from Kapuscinski
When I was back in New York in May, a few of my photos were shown in the New York Photo Festival as part of an enormous collection of images from the “Arab Spring.” Something very strange happened when I saw my photos, among hundreds of others, projected onto the interior wall of the DUMBO [...]
Did Ryszard Kapuscinski Know Me?
So, I just finished reading Travels with Herodotus by the legendary Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski. I don’t think I’ve underlined as much in one book as I did in this, but there is one passage that really stands out and is so poignant, that I had to share: “Such people, while useful, even agreeable, to [...]
A Soldier’s Answer to “Why Would Anyone Miss War?”
Over two weeks before Sebastian Junger’s Op-Ed in the NYTimes was published I was in the middle of a vibrant e-mail correspondence with a sergeant in the US Army I’d met in Kirkuk. He wrote to tell me–among other things–that he had read my piece on covering the conflict in Libya and it had struck a [...]
BBC Interview
When I was back in the states in May, I did an interview for my friend Marc who’s a producer in the BBC’s Washington bureau. It’s against BBC policy to allow people to embed videos off their site, so here’s the link. If you have any questions or comments about it, let me know. I’d [...]
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