“Marie Colvin, the fearless American war reporter who was killed in Syria in 2012 at the age of 56, used to say that her calling was to write about ‘humanity in extremis.’ As Sala makes clear in The Fire—a journey through the social and political turmoil in Iran, Ukraine and Afghanistan—she is a worthy successor to that noble pursuit. Her dispatches are as immersive and original as they are anthropologically probing... Sala intersperses these fascinating mini-profiles with facts about life in the countries she visits that make them come alive in ways that ordinary newspaper journalism rarely does.”
Read the full review in The New York Times Book Review.
