The New York Review abroad : fifty years of international reportage / edited by Robert B. Silvers ; prologues by Ian Buruma.

Report from VIetnam I. the home program / Mary McCarthy -- Paris in the spring / Stephen Spender -- The corpse at the Iron gate / V. S. Naipaul -- Sad Brazil / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Letter from South Africa / Nadine Gordimer -- Liverpool : notes from underground / Caroline Blackwood -- Going crazy in India / Rosemary Dinnage -- In El Salvador / Joan Didion -- The Sakharovs in Gorky / Natalya Viktorovna and Vladimir Tolz -- The burial of Cambodia / William Shawcross -- 'I am prepared for anything' / Jerzy Popieluszko -- Fire on the road / Ryszard Kapuscinski -- The revolution of the magic lantern / Timothy Garton Ash -- Godot comes to Sarajevo / Susan Sontag -- The nowhere city / Amos Elon -- Love and misery in Cuba / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Tibet disenchanted / Ian Buruma -- AIDS : the lesson of Uganda / Helen Epstein -- Arrested in China / Kang Zhengguo -- With the northern alliance / Tim Judah -- The suicidebombers / Avishai Margalit -- Delusions in Baghdad / Mark Danner -- Left out in Turkey / Christopher de Bellaigue -- The battle for Egypt's future / Yasmine El Rashidi -- An exclusive corner of Hebron / Jonathan Freedland -- A farewell to Haiti / Mischa Berlinski -- Is Libya cracking up? / Nicolas Pelham.

For the past fifty years, "The New York Review of Books" has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world's most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts.