For 40 years, the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński, who died in January at age 74, was, as John le Carré called him, the “conjuror extraordinary of modern reportage.” His subject was the postcolonial world—its wars, madnesses, corruptions, and sufferings. Most famous for his powerful explorations of African conflicts in The Soccer War, The Shadow of the Sun, and Another Day of Life, Kapuściński also pondered the nature of empire in books on the Soviet Union, Ethiopia, and Iran. No matter where he wandered, there was always a kinetic, restless quality to his prose, a lean style that perfectly translated the intense inquisitiveness of a perpetual mover, a nomad on the wing.
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