Howard W. French is an associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and was for many years a New York Times correspondent. His most recent book is A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa. (December 2010)
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Looking for Hope in Burma
December 23, 2010
Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant
by Benedict Rogers, with a foreword by Václav Havel
Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma
by Emma Larkin
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A Hero of the China Underground
October 14, 2010
The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up
by Liao Yiwu, translated from the Chinese with an introduction by Wen Huang, and with a foreword by Philip Gourevitch
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The Debate over Rwanda
December 3, 2009
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Kagame’s Hidden War in the Congo
September 24, 2009
Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
by Gérard Prunier
The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa
by René Lemarchand
The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality
by Thomas Turner
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'It Is Not Convenient To Speak of Such Things': Notes from Rangoon
December 14, 2010
Officially, I had come to Burma—ruled by one of the world’s most opaque and repressive regimes—to teach a one-month documentary photography course to local photojournalists. But it was the only country in Southeast Asia I had never managed to visit and I was very eager to explore the place for myself.