BAGHDAD. I just finished reading  Eric Bennet's extraordinary work of fiction, A Big Enough Lie , published last year. I highly r...

With all of t he previous post 's photographs, I'm splitting the post from Ouagadougou in two , this is the second part. In a city w...

OUAGADOUGOU. I am just returning from a long trip to West Africa, which partly-explains the three month silence on the blog. I was...