Public Library 20.1
The Pictures of War you Aren’t Supposed to See. Striking article by Chris Hedges about the impersonality of ‘industrial war’ (great term) and two new books of war photographs that tell a very different story to the media and Hollywood’s “mythic visions of war [which] keep it heroic and entertaining.” Via truth dig.
The Real Question. Scott F. Parker discusses the inevitable comparisons between ‘Good Old Neon’ and its author, David Foster Wallace. Via Fiction Writers Review.
Moscow’s stray dogs. Piece on Moscow’s fondness for the tens of thousands of stray dogs that wander the city’s streets and metro. Via Financial Times.
The Howard impact. Edited extract from How Australia Compares, a new book by Rodney Tiffen and Ross Gittins analysing the Howard government’s years in power. Via Inside Story.
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle. The full text of an advance feature by Scott Horton that will appear in the March 2010 Harper’s Magazine on the “suicides” of three Guantanamo prisoners – not an act of desperation “but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.”
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