A castaway sailor and the shuttering of a great newspaper Rojas Seventy years ago, the military dictatorship of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia shut down one of the nation’s best newspapers, El Espectador, after an expose by a 28-year-old reporter who would go on to become one of the world’s most famous novelists. It’s a … Continue reading How a young journalist and future Nobel laureate exposed the corruption of a dictator: Gabriel García Márquez, 1955
50th anniversary of a great book about the ‘Great War’
As a writer of non-fiction, the late Paul Fussell was one of the master distillers of the 20th Century, and by distiller I mean something like this: A writer who considers all -- not only the general history of an examined period, but the cultural, political, social and commercial environment -- and who extracts from … Continue reading 50th anniversary of a great book about the ‘Great War’
Dan Rodricks 