In the summer of 1990, tens of thousands of Liberians died in a civil war of remarkable brutality. Many more starved to death. I know this because I was living there, a journalist married to an American diplomat. Two rival rebel groups hacked their way through the country, bent on overthrowing the d…
The Final Days of Dr Doe
Lynda Schuster
‘In the summer of 1990, tens of thousands of Liberians died in a civil war of remarkable brutality. Many more starved to death'.
40 years of Granta

The Silkworms
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Peace Shall Destroy Many
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Blue Sky Days
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Vladimir in Love
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The Transition
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know? What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
Lynda Schuster
Lynda Schuster has reported from Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa for the Wall Street Journal. She is the author of A Burning Hunger: One Family's Struggle Against Apartheid. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is working on a memoir.
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