A Stone Unturned

March 27, 2003 | This article appeared in the April 14, 2003 edition of The Nation.

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Someone once described Graham Greene as the novelist of decolonizing
Britain.

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Patrick Smith

Patrick Smith was a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune. (reporting from...

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