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SELECTED ARTICLES

Meet Lt. Col. Chris Gough: Killing by Drone and Proud of It

Hostage to Fortune

The Dubai Disaster

Women in Darfur

Iran after the Vote, Counterpunch, June 2009

No Genocide in Darfur, Counterpunch, May, 2009

Al Jazeera - Look East (The Guardian, 13 November, 2006)

 LIBYA ONE YEAR AFTER TONY BLAIR'S VISIT

The Price was High - The BBC, Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Kelly Affair  (pdf format 216K ) and reprinted here

Television Without Qualities - An Arabian Experiment Download/View MSWord File  HTML File

"Viewed from The East" (reprinted from Advanced Television)

selected reviews from The Guardian (London) 

 

January 30 1992 SERIAL VICTIMS

Portraits Of The Missing, by Julian Symons (Andre Deutsch, £12.99)

 

January 23 1992 CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING

Black Athena, by Martin Bernal (Vintage, £8.99)

The Crooked Timber Of Humanity, by Isaiah Berlin (Fontana, £5.99)

The Biggest Game In Town, by Al Alvarez (Oldcastle, £5.95)

 

Taste, by Stephen Bayley (Faber, £15.99)

The Greening Of A Red, by Malcolm MacEwen (Pluto Press, £8.95)

Scum Of The Earth, by Arthur Koestler (Eland, £6.99)

The Book Of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa, (Quartet, £5.95)

 

India's Bandit Queen, by Mala Sen (Collins Harvill, £15)

 

The Middle Parts Of Fortune, by Frederic Manning (Penguin, £5.99)

So Very English, edited by Marsha Rowe (Serpent's Tail, £7.99)

Antonio Gramsci: Life Of A Revolutionary, by Giuseppe Fiori (Verso, £11.95)

Gramsci's Political Thought: An Introduction, by Roger Simon (Lawrence & Wishart £7.95)

 

The Beggar, by Naguib Mahfouz (Doubleday, £5.99)

Foreign Studies, by Shusaku Endo (Sceptre, £4.99)

The Story Of Jazz, by Marshall W. Stearns (OUP, £6.99)

Myth, Literature And The African World by Wole Soyinka (Canto, £4.95)

 

Gazza! by Robin McGibbon; (Penguin, £3.99)

The Cost Of Free Speech, by Simon Lee (Faber, £4.99)

Brendan Behan, by Ulick O'Connor (Black Swan, £5.99)

Poet In New York, by Federico Garcia Lorca (Penguin, £6.99)

 

The Pencil: A History, by Henry Petroski (Faber, £14.99)

 

September 27 1990 Books: Lamentation in Raj-time

India: A Million Mutinies Now, by V. S. Naipaul (Heinemann, £17.50)

 

Septuagenarian Stew: Stories And Poems, by Charles Bukowski (Black Sparrow Press/Airlift Distributors, £12.95)

The Legend Of The Holy Drinker, by Joseph Roth (Picador Classics, £3.99)

Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography Of John Reed, by Robert A. Rosenstone (Harvard, £9.95)

Arabesques, by Anton Shammas (Penguin, £5.99)

 

Granta 31: The General, edited by Bill Buford (Granta Publications/Penguin, £5.99)

The Heretic by Chris Scott (Quartet, £6.95)

The Best Of Ognonyok The New Journalism Of Glasnost, edited by Vitaly Korotich and Cathy Porter (Heinemann, £9.95)

Unnatural Selection, by Daniel Evan Weiss (Black Swan, £4.99)

Arguments For A Theatre, by Howard Barker (John Calder, £3.95)

Essays On Politics And Literature, by Bernard Crick (Edinburgh University Press, £8.95)

 

Weimar: Why Did Democracy Fail? edited by Ian Kershaw (Weidenfeld, £6.95)

Three Soldiers, by John Dos Passos (Penguin £5.99)

Milena, by Margarete Buber-Neumann (Collins Harvill, £5.95)

Articulate Flesh, by Gregory Woods (Yale University Press, £7.95)

 
February 24 1989
A Border Station, by Shane Connaughton (Hamish Hamilton £10.95)

and an endorsement for Arthur Koestler's "Scum of the Earth"

 

 


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