Writers Under Siege Burma Snapshots By Karen Swenson Rangoon Like monks in the monasteries at Ladakh, writers in Rangoon are always a climb away. So not until I reach the fifth floor at the...
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Traces of a Prophet Finding George Orwell in Burma By Emma Larkin Penguin. 294 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Karen Swenson Author, "A Daughter's Latitude, "The Landlady in Bangkok," "A Sense of...
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Hollywood and the Lamas Virtual Tibet By Orville Schell Metropolitan. 340 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Karen Swenson Author, "The Latitude of a Daughter: New and Selected Poems" Orville Schell...
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Adventure or Tragedy Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival By John Kenneth Knaus Public Affairs. 416 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Karen Swenson Author, "The...
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A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK Battle of Wills in Myanmar BY KAREN SWENSON YANGON I TOLD THE agent sitting behind a thick plastic partition at the airport currency booth that I would only be in her...
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MODERN PROBLEMS IN AN ANCIENT LAND Culture vs. Ecology in Nepal BY KAREN SWENSON Katmandu Visiting Nepal with a group of anthropologists 14 years ago, I amused myself each morning, while taking...
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