The Desert and the Sea

Tristan McConnell is a foreign correspondent living in Nairobi, Kenya. He has written for GQ, The New Yorker,&nbsp;Harper’s,&nbsp;Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review, London Review of Books, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. His reporting has won awards from the Overseas Press Club of America, the Prix Bayeux for War Correspondents and the Society for Features Journalism.

Tristan McConnell

Almost Dying for the Story: On Michael Scott Moore’s “The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Tristan McConnell is a foreign correspondent living in Nairobi, Kenya. He has written for GQ, The New Yorker,&nbsp;Harper’s,&nbsp;Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review, London Review of Books, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. His reporting has won awards from the Overseas Press Club of America, the Prix Bayeux for War Correspondents and the Society for Features Journalism.