“…Among the pieces included are: Susan Sontag's personal narrative of staging Waiting for Godot in war-torn Sarajevo, Alma Guillermoprieto's report from inside Colombia's guerrilla headquarters and her disturbing encounter with young female fighters, Ryszard Kapuscinski's terrifying description of being set on fire while running roadblocks in Nigeria, Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov's somber autobiographical account of one man's attempt to live morally under a totalitarian regime, Caroline Blackwood's coverage of the 1979 gravediggers' strike in Liverpool-a noir mini-masterpiece, Timothy Garton
Ash's minute-by-minute account from the Magic Lantern theater in Prague in 1989, where the subterranean stage, auditorium, foyers, and dressing rooms had become the headquarters of the revolution Among other writers whose New York Review pieces will be included are Tim Judah, Amos Elon, Joan Didion, William Shawcross, Christopher de Bellaigue, and Mark Danner. …”
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