Tag Archives: Journalism
![](https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/087113876X-1-196x291.jpg)
Road Work
by Mark Bowden“[Bowden] excels at sharply drawn, painstakingly reported stories about losers, oddballs and con men. . . . Fashioning prose that reads like good fiction, with the bonus that his stories…
![](https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/0802142516-196x291.jpg)
Where We Have Hope
by Andrew Meldrum“Gripping . . . Meldrum provides names, faces and photographs of the players involved. . . . His firsthand experience of the horrors adds…
![](https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/0802142567-196x291.jpg)
War Reporting for Cowards
by Chris Ayres…bout of cowardice he managed to record the event with grace. . . . War Reporting for Cowards reminded me of the granddaddy of the genre, Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop, and that Ayres’s book can be mentioned in the same sentence is a tribute. . . . The truly indispensable…
![](https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/9780871132123-196x291.jpg)
The View from the Ground
by Martha Gellhorn“Wide-ranging and provocative, a blend of cool lyricism and fiery emotion, alternately prickly and welcoming, funny and stern, they areproof enough that Gellhorn is…
![](https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/0802170080-196x291.jpg)
Teenage Hipster in the Modern World
by Mark Jacobson“In his vibrant, pulsing journalism, Mark Jacobson consistently displays the essential quality of a great musician: the sense of surprise. He looks, he listens,…
![](https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/0802138624-196x291.jpg)
Stet
by Diana Athill‘diana Athill has a delightful way with the English language–crisp, scrupulously honest, precise and without a micron of self-indulgence. . . . Luckily for…
![](https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/9780802170415-196x291.jpg)
Smells Like Dead Elephants
by Matt Taibbi“A political reporter with the gonzo spirit that made Hunter S. Thompson and P. J. O’Rourke so much fun . . . Taibbi also…
![](https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/9780802145765-196x291.jpg)
Open Secrets
by The New York Times StaffFeaturing the complete and updated coverage by The New York Times of WikiLeaks and the confidential documents they released, Open Secrets is a must-read…
![](https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/9780802136534-196x291.jpg)
Magnum
by Russell Miller‘miller deftly conveys the excitement of being a photojournalist at a time when world events were unfolding at a furious pace . . ….
![](https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/0802140254-196x291.jpg)
The Lion’s Grave
by Jon Lee Anderson“Vital, eminently readable. . . . Anderson is a good, plain writer with an eye for detail.” –Wally Hammond, Time Out London (UK)