Hilsum’s biography of Marie Colvin, the reporter who was killed in 2012, is a well written, rose colored glasses off type of biography. Drawing on interviews as well as Colvin’s diary entries, Hilsum presents a complicated portrait of a woman. It is refreshing to read a book about a woman who seems so on point and is just as problematic as the rest of us. When you read or listened to Colvin, you always had the impression that she was on top of everything. It […]
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In Extremis by Lindsey Hilsum