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Stanley Crouch is the latest black social commentator to work a vein first excavated by the journalist George S. Schuyler during the 1940s: the scold posing as a voice of intellectual integrity. A self-proclaimed defector from the black nationalist excesses that he blames for the collapse of the civil rights struggle, Crouch likens himself to the freebooter Henry Morgan, "who sent many of his former pirate buddies to the gallows, certain that they deserved what they got." In this collection of essays and reviews, however, the former Village Voice staff writer too often allows his insights into the self...
Just hours after the Chernobyl accident, a pilot friend asked Igor Kostin if he wanted to fly over the nuclear plant. "I agreed, of course," recalls Kostin, 53. "I wanted to prove that I was a man." He also proved he was a good journalist by becoming the first photographer on the scene. "There was still smoke coming out of the reactor," he says, "but I managed to get a few shots off. You could actually feel the silence. It was like a cemetery...
...Israel, which is believed to possess nuclear weapons, may be exaggerating Iraq's progress toward building an atomic bomb. Nonetheless, Western arms experts fear that in his drive to dominate the region, Saddam is capable of almost any atrocity. The execution three weeks ago of British- based, Iranian-born journalist Farzad Bazoft shocked the world. But the hanging surprised few Iraqis, who have become accustomed to Saddam's cruel brand of justice, which sanctions men's killing adulterous mothers, wives or daughters. Known as the "Butcher of Baghdad," Saddam lived up to his name in March 1988 when his military...
...disappeared after a scientist is murdered in her elegant beach house. But The Horse Latitudes works because it is really the story of Danny's quest to get over his obsession with the amoral, alluring Lauren. Under the cover of deadpan comedy and sharp-edged eroticism, Ferrigno, a journalist from Long Beach, Calif., has produced a work of noir literature that is the most memorable fiction debut of the season. With a magic all his own, he has written an illuminating novel that never fails to entertain but also, surprisingly, makes us feel...
Last week the world was shocked when Farzad Bazoft, a British-based Iranian- born journalist, was hanged in Baghdad after being convicted on charges of having spied for Israel and Britain. Bazoft, 31, was arrested last September while on assignment for the British weekly the Observer. He had been investigating a mysterious explosion that reportedly killed hundreds of workers at a military complex south of Baghdad. Daphne Parish, 53, a British nurse who drove Bazoft to the site, was sentenced to 15 years in prison...