Book Reviews
Author Reconciles with Liberia's Gruesome Past
A Forbes review of the memoirs of Agnes Fallah Karama-Umunna, a Liberian journalist who interviewed hundreds of soldiers and victims of Liberia's civil war on a United Nations-hosted talk show.
In Ciudad Juarez, NAFTA's Grisly Legacy
A review for Forbes' Booked blog of Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade and La Frontera, a collection of essays by gender and Latin America researchers that examines the link between the factory jobs that lured young women to the Mexican borderland and the spate of rape and killing of women.
A review of a polemic on the branding of the indy aesthetic by the founder of now defunct Punk Planet magazine.
Dead Brother's Papers Enrich Re-Creation of His Life
A review for The Miami Herald of an author who researches his brother's life through the love letters, journal entries and fiction he leaves behind in the fateful Lockerbie bombing.
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