Divided Soul

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — MARCH/APRIL 2008
Rian Malan’s one and only meeting with J.M. Coetzee took place in the early 1990s. Malan greatly esteemed his fellow South African writer, and when Coetzee won the Nobel Prize in 2003, he declared that the laureate had “described, more truly than any other, what it was to be white [...]

A Mention in The Christian Science Monitor

A CJR.ORG piece about the Vanity Fair Africa issue was mentioned in a Christian Science Monitor article, “Star Power Brings Attention to Africa”:
A Columbia Journalism Review critique points at a similar trend in the July Vanity Fair special Africa issue. Guest edited by Bono himself, the issue features 20 different covers, each of a different [...]

The Obscured Continent

CJR.ORG — June 26, 2007
In recent years, two main schools of thought have emerged about how to lift Africa out of its seemingly bottomless descent into war, poverty, and disease. To borrow labels used by the reporter Andrew Rice in an insightful review for the Nation two years ago, two predominant arguments are being advanced: [...]

US Jews at Forefront of Organizing Rally for Darfur

JERUSALEM POST — April 28, 2006
Thousands of people will be marching this Sunday in Washington DC under a banner that carries a simple two- word demand: “Save Darfur.”
This is the name of the coalition organizing the rally, the first public action of its size intended to focus attention on the past three years of mass [...]

Let’s Report More, Take Credit Less

CJR.ORG — August 22, 2005
Journalists love thinking that they can save lives. What could be more purifying, more self-affirming, after days spent wading in muck and sensation, than the feeling that, like doctors, you too can stave off death?
When a skeletal, dying African baby appears on the front page, we are being told to look, [...]