Global Literary Journalism

Contents: Introduction: John Tulloch/Richard Lance Keeble: Mind the Gaps: On the Fuzzy Boundaries between the Literary and the Journalistic – David Abrahamson/Ibrahim N. Abusharif: Literary Journalism in the Middle East: The Paradox of Arabic Exceptionalism – John Tulloch: Journalism as a Novel; the Novel as Journalism: The Writing of Gordon Burn – Thomas B. Connery: Searching and Seeing with Joseph Mitchell, Fact-Chasing Visionary – Anna Hoyles: Pickled Herrings and Politics: The Early Journalism of Moa Martinson – Maria Lassila-Merisalo: Veikko Ennala: Taboo-breaker in Mid-20th-century Finland – Rod Whiting: Ernest Hemingway: Stretching the Style Guide – Susan Greenberg: Kapuscinski and Beyond: The Polish School of Reportage – Rupert Hildyard: Literary Journalism, John Lanchester and the Global Financial Crash of 2008 – Nick Nuttall: Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson and the First Person Plural – Jenny McKay: Åsne Seierstad and The Bookseller of Kabul – Robert Alexander: Staying News: Subjects, Types and the Literariness of Literary Journalism – Norman Sims: The Personal and the Historical: Literary Journalism and Literary History – Michael Foley: The Reporting of Edmond O’Donovan: Literary Journalism and the Great Game – Richard Lance Keeble: The War Reporting of Robert Fisk: Relentlessly Exposing the Horror – Miles Maguire: When the Newspaper Form Falls Short: The War Memoir of Dexter Filkins – Bill Reynolds: From Cold War Cultural Critic to Mocking Liberals: Canadian Writer-Editor Robert Fulford’s Long Journey – Alice Donat Trindade: Lush Words in the Drought: The Literary Journalism of Pedro Cardoso – Pablo Calvi: José Martí and the Chronicles That Created Modern Latin America – Jane Chapman: From India’s Big Dams to Jungle Guerillas: Arundhati Roy and the Literary Polemics of Global versus Local – Alex Lockwood: «Recruiting the Imagination»: The Environmental Literary Journalism of Rachel Carson – Giulia Bruna: John Millington Synge’s Travel Journalism: Reporting from the Fringes of Revival Ireland – Florian Zollmann: John Pilger’s «Youth in Action» as an Example of Literary Journalism – Susan Greenberg: Slow Journalism in the Digital Fast Lane – Martin Conboy: Afterword: Between the Liminal and the Literary.