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Capa might have found a kindred spirit in James Nachtwey, the intrepid photojournalist and five-time Capa medal winner whose book Inferno chronicles suffering from a sometimes uncomfortably close perspective. Nachtwey, whose photographs have appeared in Time magazine and in a previous collection, 1989's Deeds of War, chooses as his subjects the spoils of war, genocide and social stigma. He is an "anti-war photographer,'' says the writer Luc Sante in Inferno's brief introduction; his photographs record the horror of war rather than the valor...
...Kurt Vonnegut's newest book, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, the intrepid author boldly crosses the threshold between life and death. Into the blue tunnel and through the pearly gates forges Vonnegut in search of precious interviews with post-mortems, from James Earl Ray and Eugene Victor Debs to William Shakespeare and Kilgore Trout. At the outset of this fictional narrative, the author of Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions writes "My first near-death experience was an accident, a botched anesthesia during a triple-bypass." He finds the event so fascinating that he decides to elicit...
...whose economic network stretched from today's Iraq all the way to the Canadian Arctic. They were democrats who founded the world's oldest surviving parliament while Britain was still mired in feudalism. They were master metalworkers, fashioning exquisite jewelry from silver, gold and bronze. Above all, they were intrepid explorers whose restless hearts brought them to North America some 500 years before Columbus...
...Though they come at the busiest time of year for the arts at Harvard, these are four very promising productions, each featuring the talents of one of the school's most experienced directors. While even the most intrepid Shakespeare fan will probably not have time for all four, any of them would certainly be worth checking out during the bustle of Arts First or the calm of Reading Period...
...both sides had the picture they wanted. An intrepid AP photographer captured a federal agent holding a submachine gun as the fisherman held the terrified child. Within hours came the counterrevolution, the image of a grateful father holding his smiling son. In the end, what you made of the passion play depended on which picture stayed with you longer, and whose version of the story had the ring of truth...