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NONFICTION: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames ∙The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙Dispatches, Michael Herr ∙Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni The River Congo, Peter Forbath...
NONFICTION: The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie Dispatches, Michael Herr∙Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni∙Ring, Jonathan Yardley∙The River Congo, Peter Forbath...
...River Congo, Peter Forbath...
NONFICTION: Chinese Shadows, Simon Leys -The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh,edited by Michael Davie Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni -Ring, Jonathan Yardley -The River Congo, Peter Forbath...
...notes Forbath, the Congo has settled into something resembling stability. A confederation of tribes has been loosely tied into the nation of Zaire. The country, Forbath writes, is becoming un recognizable. "The tribal villages are also by and large gone . . . displaced by dreary modern mining towns" where tribes men wear plastic hard hats and carry lunch buckets, and "fires can be seen burning everywhere, burning through the grass, blackening the earth, destroying the land." But the river remains unchanged...