The New York Review Abroad

For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world's most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes epilogues that update and reassess the political situation (by either the original authors or by Ian Buruma). Among the pieces included are:Susan Sontag's personal narrative of staging Waiting for Godot in war-torn SarajevoAlma 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 NigeriaCaroline Blackwood's coverage of the 1979 gravediggers' strike in Liverpool--a noir mini-masterpieceTimothy Garton Ash's minute-by-minute account from the Magic...