Vanity Fair’s June issue has a profile. of Hillary Clinton. It contains tons of information about her working relationship with President Barack Obama, how she made up with Samantha Power, the Obama ally and Harvard professor, who referred to Mrs Clinton as “a monster,” speculates on Clinton running for President in 2016 (she still wants […]
While reviewing this week’s film, Out of Africa (1985), for our series Africa on Film, I wondered what I would write about. Many people have bones to pick with this film but I was unable to distinguish what they were. The grandiose sets of colonial Kenya in the early part of the 20th century are […]
I have written elsewhere that I am not sure how I feel about the work of photographer Peter Beard. He thinks of Africa as a spoilt Eden, muse is Isak Denisen (Karen Blixen; he loved her “Out of Africa“) and half the time the photographs look like Europeans who are on safari. But do people […]
