Skip navigation
London Review of Books London Review Bookshop

Diary

Rory Stewart

This article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article.

Rory Stewart’s The Places in Between describes his walk across Afghanistan in 2001. He has worked for the British government in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, and is now a fellow of the Carr Centre at Harvard.

From the archive

In North Korea
Jon Cannon visits the Chinese – North Korean border

Out of the Hadhramaut
Michael Gilsenan on Being ‘Arab’

Diary
Rory Stewart walks across Iran

What to do about Burma
Thant Myint-U: Are we getting it wrong?

We look at it and see ourselves
Bruce Cumings: Fantasies of Korea