Read The Warmth of Other Suns

Kapuscinski's forty years reporting Africa, from Ghana's independence to Rwanda.

Haile Selassie's court told by its servants; Kapuscinski on power anywhere.

Voices of the liquidators, widows and resettled villagers; Alexievich's Nobel oral history.

Russians remember the end of the Soviet Union and the 1990s; Alexievich's chorus.

Kapuscinski's first assignments abroad with the first historian in his pocket.

The fall of the Iranian monarchy in 1979 through photographs and fragments; Kapuscinski.

Tom Wolfe on the test pilots and the Mercury Seven.

John Hersey follows six survivors through the day of the bomb; the New Yorker gave it a whole issue.