We have chosen five books by journalists who have seized on the advantages of the foreign correspondent’s position while avoiding the pitfalls
write about lands other than their own hold an enviable position. They are free from entanglements and allegiances that can interfere with the judgment of native journalists. They can often roam across territories, societies and cultures in a way that their local colleagues rarely do. In a dictatorship, it’s the correspondents working for the press in democracies abroad who can write freely. The job description “foreign correspondent” has undeniable glamour.
Some journalists view the world from the top down. Others—often the most observant ones—from the bottom up. Katherine Boo, who writes for the”, published in 2012, is set in Annawadi, a marshy slum at the end of the main runway of Mumbai’s international airport. Immigrants from all over the country face a daily grind of poverty, hunger, illness and corruption as they try to make a life in the big smoke.
Congo has long drawn intrepid foreign writers, from Joseph Conrad, creator of Kurtz, an ivory trader who becomes a potentate in the jungle, onwards. But few are as funny as Michela Wrongwho in the 1990s reported on the downfall of Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator of what he called Zaire, and the start of the great Congo warMs Wrong takes the reader diligently through the history. But it is the reported details that makeso joyous.
Few countries are trickier to report on than North Korea. Although outsiders can enter the “Hermit Kingdom”, they are mostly restricted to the capital, Pyongyang, a Potemkin city where the government tries to present an image of wealth and normality. Beyond is a black hole: citizens cannot connect to the internet; there are only state media.
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