Travels

• Published in The Times
  9 May 2010
  About Literary life, Travels

  WE, THE DROWNED, by Carsten Jensen

  The Times, May 2010 The sea has always had a mysterious influence on men, tugging them away from their humdrum,

• Published in The Times
  9 November 2008
  About Literary life, Travels

  THE CHINA LOVER, by Ian Buruma

  The Times of London – November, 2008 There is a Japanese saying about a frog in a well, who thinks

• Published in The Times
  9 August 2008
  About Literary life, Travels

  THE WASTED VIGIL, by Nadeem Aslam

  The Times of London – August, 2008 Six characters gather in a half-ruined house in rural Afghanistan, sometime after September

• Published in The Independent
  9 February 2008
  About Literary life, Russia, Travels

  CHILDREN’S WORLD, by Catriona Kelly: The kindly side of Uncle Joe

  The Independent, February, 2008 Stalin was no slouch at PR. But his greatest success in this department was probably the

• Published in The Times
  9 April 2004
  About Justice, Travels

  Questions from beyond the grave in Mexico’s city of dead women

  Times Saturday Magazine – April, 2004 It’s the first memorial of the week in the city of murdered women: a

• Published in The Times
  9 March 2004
  About Russia, Travels

  The yachtsmen of millionaire Moscow

  Times Saturday Magazine – Spring, 2004 Someone is playing the James Bond theme tune on this chilly Moscow afternoon. A

• Published in The Times
  14 February 2004
  About Travels

  Aids – the latest spectre to haunt disaster-ridden Cambodia

  Times Saturday Magazine – February 14, 2004 Chim Ouk is lying facing out towards the fields. The landscape is vibrantly

• Published in The Times
  24 November 2003
  About Justice, Russia, Travels

  Whispers in the woods of eastern Europe provoke nuclear panic

  The Times – November 24, 2003 One of the oddest cases to cross David Blunkett’s desk began as a whispering

• Published in Prospect Magazine
  20 October 2003
  About Justice, London life, Russia, Travels

  A plague on all our houses

  Prospect Magazine – 20 October, 2003 There is a rat for every person in the British Isles. Our way of

• Published in The Times
  6 September 2003
  About Travels

  Beauty shows its face in Afghanistan

  Times Saturday Magazine – September 6, 2003 Afghanistan’s recent history is often simplified into the triumph of Beauty over the

• Published in The Times Literary Supplement
  18 July 2003
  About Literary life, Travels

  The shifting sands of the SAHARA: book reviews

  Times Literary Supplement – July 18, 2003 Fergus Fleming: The Sword and the Cross Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle: Sahara: The

• Published in The Times Literary Supplement
  8 June 2001
  About Justice, Literary life, Russia, Travels

  Spies who loved too well

  Times Literary Supplement – June 8, 2001 Igor Damaskin and Geoffrey Elliot: Kitty Harris: The Spy with Seventeen Names W G

• Published in Prospect Magazine
  9 February 2001
  About Caviar, Chechyna, Justice, Russia, Travels

  Power food – crime and luxury at the end of the earth

  Prospect Magazine – February, 2001 On the shore of the Caspian Sea you can, if you know the right people,

• Published in The Times
  27 January 2000
  About Chechyna, Justice, Russia, Travels

  Chechens in Russia “moving between circles of Hell”

  The Times – January 27, 2000 Zarema and her family had three choices. Live illegally on the streets in Moscow