Murray Sayle

Murray Sayle is a veteran foreign correspondent who has been living in Japan.

In the LRB Archive:

• Diary: The Makiko and Junichiro Show · 17 October 2002

• Bloody Sunday Report: back to Bloody Sunday · 11 July 2002

• Why the bastards wouldn’t stand and fight: Mao in Vietnam · 21 February 2002

  • China and the Vietnam Wars 1950-75 by Qiang Zhai
  • None so Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam by George Allen
  • No Peace, No Honour: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam by Larry Berman

• After George W. Bush, the Deluge: climate change · 21 June 2001

  • Draft Report of the 17th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Nairobi, 4-6 April 2001
  • Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
  • The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming by David Victor
  • Managing the Planet: The Politics of the New Millennium by Norman Moss

• Japan goes Dutch: Japan’s economic troubles · 5 April 2001

• In the Tart Shop: How Sydney got its Opera House · 5 October 2000

  • The Masterpiece: Jørn Utzon, a Secret Life by Philip Drew
  • Jørn Utzon: The Sydney Opera House by Françoise Fromonot, translated by Christopher Thompson

• The Vulgarity of Success: Everest and Empire · 7 May 1998

  • Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond by Peter Steele

• Last Exit · 27 November 1997

  • The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong by Jonathan Dimbleby
  • In Pursuit of British Interests: Reflections on Foreign Policy under Margaret Thatcher and John Major by Percy Cradock
  • Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule: The Economic and Political Implications of Reversion edited by Warren Cohen and Li Zhao
  • The Hong Kong Advantage by Michael Enright, Edith Scott and David Dodwell

• Spying doesn’t get any better than this · 22 May 1997

  • Stalin’s Spy: Richard Sorge and the Tokyo Espionage Ring by Robert Whymant

• Corncob Caesar · 6 February 1997

  • Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur by Geoffrey Perret

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