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Ryszard Kapuscinski
Reporting from such varied locations as postcolonial Africa, revolutionary Iran, the military dictatorships of Latin America and Soviet Russia, the Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski was one of the most influential eyewitness journalists of the twentieth century. During the Cold War, he was a dauntless investigator as well as a towering literary talent, and books such as The Emperor and Travels with Herodotus founded the new genre of ‘literary reportage’. It was an achievement that brought him global renown, not to mention the uninvited attentions of the CIA. In this definitive biography, Artur Domos?awski shines a new light on the personal relationships of this intensely c...
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Shah of Shahs
Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a backward country into a great power - a vain hope that proves a complete failure. Yet even as Iran becomes a 'behemoth of riches' and as the Shah lives like a European billionaire, its people live in a climate of fear, terrorized by the secret police. Told with intense power and feeling, Kapuscinski portrays the inevitable build-up to revolution - a cataclysmic upheaval that delivered Iran into the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Travels with Herodotus
Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski, the novice reporter, told his editor he'd like to go abroad, dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia. Instead he was sent to India. Kapuściński gives us the non-Western world through virginal Western eyes.
Reassessing Communism
The thirteen authors of this collective work undertook to articulate matter-of-fact critiques of the dominant narrative about communism in Poland while offering new analyses of the concept, and also examining the manifestations of anticommunism. Approaching communist ideas and practices, programs and their implementations, as an inseparable whole, they examine the issues of emancipation, upward social mobility, and changes in the cultural canon. The authors refuse to treat communism in Poland in simplistic categories of totalitarianism, absolute evil and Soviet colonization, and similarly refuse to equate communism and fascism. Nor do they adopt the neoliberal view of communism as a project ...
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Granta 147
In 1979, Bill Buford, a young American graduate, revived an old Cambridge university magazine and created a new home for good writing of all kinds - reportage, fiction, memoir, poetry - as well as photography. In the years (and decades) that followed, Granta established itself as the one of the most prestigious literary publications in the English-speaking world. In that time Granta has published 26 Nobel Prize for Literature winners, defined new literary genres and paved the way for generations of young novelists. To celebrate forty years of brilliant publishing, Granta 147 brings together our best fiction and non-fiction from the last four decades, along with a selection of letters from be...
以民主之名的獨裁：民粹、兩極分化、後真相，戕害自由的21世紀「權力遊戲」
民主破壞民主已成事實，公民如何成為捍衛民主的第一道防線？ 《微權力》作者敲響警鐘，洞察全球最迫切危機 為何權力重新集中？民主自由式微？ 死灰復燃的獨裁以創新形式反撲，民主體制如何抵抗它發動的攻擊？ 我們的未來會更加專制，還是更加民主？ 暢銷書《微權力》作者奈姆在本書研究促成權力集中的趨勢、條件、技術和行為，以及「削弱權力」和「強化權力」的力量之間的衝突。他專注探討3P：民粹主義（populism）、兩極分化（polarization）和後真相（post-truth）——概念並非全新，但被獨裁者用創新且融合新科技...
Racconti di due Americhe
L'America è spezzata. Non c'è bisogno di statistiche per capirlo: basta visitare una qualunque città, qualunque angolo degli Stati Uniti, dagli Appalachi alla California, fino al Texas. Il divario tra i più ricchi e i più poveri è diventato una voragine un tempo inimmaginabile. A mettere in pericolo il sogno americano sono la spaventosa disuguaglianza, l'ingiustizia sistematica, il radicamento del razzismo, le politiche immigratorie, le tendopoli a due passi da zone commerciali con negozi che sono sempre meno a portata di tutte le tasche, le masse di senzatetto che si trascinano per le vie delle città, le discriminazioni sessuali, la famelicità con cui la finanza depreda i più pover...
Another Day of Life
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions.
