I happened to read an obituary of Stephen Vincent, the journalist who was killed last week in Iraq, and thought his story was so interesting -- an art journalist who witnessed the attack on the World Trade Centre and changed his life, going off to Iraq to write about the war -- that I went out and got his book, In the Red Zone, and started reading some of the articles he wrote (you can find a number of them on the National Review website (one called The Stringer is especially interesting)), and wanted to recommend the book and his writing generally.

This is someone who finally did not stay in any protected Green Zone, either in his life or in his death. Just a bit of homage to another loss in the war.

yours,

Peter T.