war-correspondent

With his narrative gifts and vivid prose -- as free, thank God, of literary posturing as it is of war-correspondent chest-thumping -- Junger masterfully chronicles the platoon's 15-month tour of duty.

Sebastian Junger's 'War,' reviewed by Philip Caputo Philip Caputo 2010

The Dread Empire, a gritty world of larger-than-life plots, nation-shattering conflict, maddening magic, strange creatures, and raw, flawed heroes, all shown through the filter of Cook's inimitable war-correspondent prose.

Archive 2009-06-01 RobB 2009

After noting that the corner had been the scene of a recent brawl, the reporter went into war-correspondent mode: "It's at least the second time in two months that warring thugs occupied the corner, and the people of Uptown are sick of it."

Robert Koehler: Single-Eyed Vision 2009

The Dread Empire, a gritty world of larger-than-life plots, nation-shattering conflict, maddening magic, strange creatures, and raw, flawed heroes, all shown through the filter of Cook's inimitable war-correspondent prose.

Books in the Mail (W/E 06/27/2009) RobB 2009

Set in partitioned Berlin just after the end of World War II, it has an urbane war-correspondent hero (George Clooney) sent to Germany to cover the Potsdam conference, a femme fatale who reeks ofDietrich-like doomed glamour (Cate Blanchett as Clooney's old flame, now reduced to prosti-tution), a callow young American corporal (Tobey Maguire) milking the ruined city for black-market profits and international skullduggery involving Nazi scientists coveted by both the Soviets and the Americans.

Holiday Movie Guide 2007

“War forms its own culture,” writes war-correspondent Chris Hedges.

Never Give A Life, or Take A Life, For A Lie 2007

You could, but I'm not sure that a few hundred readers a day, and no firsthand overseas war-correspondent experience constitutes "a significant and outstanding contribution to the general public's understanding of issues relating to Canada's defence and security," much less work that's "widely acclaimed as significant journalism."

Ross Munro Media Award - nominations 2007

These dispatches from the front lines in Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria are actually among the finest war-correspondent files of all time.

The Old Man 2004

These dispatches from the front lines in Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria are actually among the finest war-correspondent files of all time.

The Old Man 2004

Certainly by the time of the war in Vietnam, the war-correspondent David Leitch recorded reporters swapping notes: “When you get to Da Nang ask for Mickey Mouth — she does the best blow job in South-East Asia.”

As American as Apple Pie Hitchens, Christopher 2006