Oliver Balch

Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World’s Last Frontier by Heriberto Araujo reviewed

The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees by Matthieu Aikins reviewed

A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera reviewed

Dopeworld: Adventures in Drug Lands by Niko Vorobyov reviewed

Spanish restaurants in Germany are relatively rare, but not nearly as rare as biographies of General Franco. So when the Spanish-born waiter in Bonn’s Casa Pepe approached my table, it struck me as an opportune moment to solicit his opinion about the former dictator. ‘No sé mucho,’ he shrugged. ‘I don’t know a whole lot.’ … Read more