Civilisation: Twenty Places on the Edge of the World by Steve Braunias - review

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By Peter Riordan in Books

Issue 3789 13th Dec 2012

Steve Braunias encounters an unending string of recluses, loners, divorcees, oddballs and obsessives in his travels through “the edge of the world”.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo review

By Peter Riordan in Books

Issue 3756 5th May 2012

American journalist Katherine Boo is very well-intentioned with her first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, and that’s probably part of the problem.

Cairo: My City, Our Revolution by Ahdaf Soueif review

By Peter Riordan in Books

Issue 3755 28th Apr 2012

Tahrir Square – words that were for a brief time on the lips of eve

Two Wings of a Nightingale by Jill Worrall review

By Peter Riordan in Books

Issue 3713 4th Jul 2011