what you get here

This is not a blog which opines on current events. It rather uses incidents, books (old and new), links and papers to muse about our social endeavours.
So old posts are as good as new! And lots of useful links!

The Bucegi mountains - the range I see from the front balcony of my mountain house - are almost 120 kms from Bucharest and cannot normally be seen from the capital but some extraordinary weather conditions allowed this pic to be taken from the top of the Intercontinental Hotel in late Feb 2020

Thursday, June 16, 2022

another attempt

The table in the penultimate post didn't work - hopefully this one will

Good “Journalistic” writers – by focus, base and nationality

People

Ideas

Events

Places

Mixed genres

Biographers

Peter Watson

Naomi Klein

 (Can)

Charles Handy

Bryan Magee

Victor Serge (Belgium)

Kenneth Roy

Masha Gessen (RU)

John Ardagh

Dervla Murphy IR

Jan Morris

Neal Ascherson

Philip Marsden

Giles Milton

 

George Orwell

Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Ger)

Francis Wheen

Arundati Roy (India)

Joan Didion  US

Tariq Ali

 (Pak/UK)

Biographers

Mark Greif  US

Mark Lilla  US

Perry Anderson US

Jill Lepore US

Historians

Political scientists

Economists

 

Geographers

Anthropologists

Sociologists

Raymond Aron

 (France)

Michael Pollan

 USA

Oriana Fallaci (It)

 

Joseph Epstein (US)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clive James

Francois Bondy (Switzerland)

Claude Roy

 (Fr)

Chris Hitchens

Martin Jacques

Paul Mason

George Monbiot

Duncan Campbell

Owen Jones

 

 

Adam Curtis

Arthur Koestler Hu/UK

Vasily Grossman (Ru)

Seb Haffner (Ger)

Joseph Roth (Ger)

Rudolf Augstein (Ger)

Paul Foot

Patrick Cockburn

Simon Jenkins

Luigi Barzini (It)

Andrew Sampson

Svetlana Alexievich (Belarussia)

Robert Kaplan

 (US)

Geert Mak

 (Neth)

John Hooper

John Pilger (Aust)

Robert Fisk

Tobias Jones

Anthony Lane

James Meek

Andrew O Hagen

 

David Goodhart

Susan George (US)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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