Clean Hands Give No Comfort - Frontline Photography
- Nick Terrell
Humanity in War: Frontline Photography since 1860
ICRC. Selected by James Nachtwey; Text by Caroline Moorehead, $AU 89.95
Red Cross personnel are the foot-soldiers of the Geneva Convention - countries who subscribe to the conventions also financially sustain the organization. But even this fairly desirable arrangement – a neutral body funded by numerous different countries and corporate bodies to impartially administer aid across the globe – is ethically fraught. The Red Cross can voice an undisguised rejection of war, but can they afford to reject funding from nations that pursue their ends through conflict? Read more
Writing is Hell - The Paris Review Interviews, vol. 4
- David Free
The Paris Review Interviews: Volume 4 (Philip Gourevitch, ed.)
Canongate, 496 pages, $Au 34.95
INTERVIEWER
How did you read this book?
REVIEWER
Semi-recumbently.
INTERVIEWER
You read on a bed? Read more