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Jennifer Maiden

Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zone by Peter Arnett

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April 1994, no. 159
Jennifer Maiden reviews 'Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zone' by Peter Arnett

The celebrated journalist Peter Arnett’s new autobiography Live from the Battlefield partly solves one mystery for me. For the last eighteen months, whenever I discussed Arnett and his forthcoming memoirs with my husband (who was trying to research Arnett’s relationship with news network CNN after the Gulf War), I found myself constantly and inexplicably analysing Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and the characterisation of the ambitious, fragile Becky Sharp.

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Simon Patton reviews 'The Earthquake Lands' by Hal Colebatch, 'The Winter Baby' by Jennifer Maiden, and 'To the Ocean & Scheherazade' by Richard Allen

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November 1990, no. 126

One of the challenges confronting the writer of poetry is the balancing of public and private modes in an engaging and satisfactory whole. In these three collections the precarious possibilities of balance, of confiding and confronting, are attempted in very different ways.

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