While I’m distracted from writing by mundane daily life things, check out this stuff, which comes from the “Things I’m currently reading” list…
Guernica Magazine, an online assemblage of in-depth reporting, beautiful writing, and good Q&A-style conversation.
The Good Soldiers, David Finkel’s ridiculously good book about a battalion in Iraq. I’m going to have a lot to say about this eventually, so in the mean time, just let me say that David Finkel is (also) bad for myself esteem, and everyone should read this book.
Howard French’s take on China in Africa, in the Atlantic.
David Newbury’s new book, , The Land Beyond the Mists, a collection of his work on the pre-colonial Great Lakes.
