For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Aidan Hartley

From the December 2001 Issue

The Fight Is Not Over

The Fever Trail: The Hunt For The Cure For Malaria

By Mark Honigsbaum

From the February 2003 Issue

How Are the Tyrants Fallen

Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators

By Riccardo Orizio

From the March 2003 Issue

Beauty and the Beast

Emma's War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan

By Deborah Scroggins

From the April 2003 Issue

The View From the Ground

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War

By Anthony Swofford

From the June 2003 Issue

Waifs and Strays

Bay of Tigers: A Journey Through War-Torn Angola

By Pedro Rosa Mendes, Clifford Landers (trans)

From the September 2003 Issue

The Identikit Dictator

Brothers Under the Skin: Travels in Tyranny

By Christopher Hope

From the October 2003 Issue

Sex and Death in Africa

A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali

By Gil Courtemanche (trans Patricia Claxton)

From the February 2004 Issue

Man On A Mission

The Dust Diaries

By Owen Sheers

From the March 2004 Issue

How the West Can Win

Soldiers of Light

By Daniel Bergner

From the September 2004 Issue

The Lost White Tribe

Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier

By Alexandra Fuller

From the July 2008 Issue

In the Killing Fields of Sudan

The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur

By Daoud Hari

From the March 2008 Issue

Doing the Lord’s Work

The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa’s Most Wanted

By Matthew Green

From the November 2012 Issue

Life at One Remove

In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir

By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o