Nice news–my New Yorker story about the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad has won the John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting, given out as one of the Mirror Awards ...
Author: Peter Maass
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. In 1983, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, I went to Brussels as a copy editor for The Wall Street Journal/Europe. I left the Journal in 1985 to write for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, covering NATO and the European Union. In 1987 I moved to Seoul, South Korea, where I wrote primarily for The Washington Post. After three years in Asia I moved to Budapest to cover Eastern Europe and the Balkans. I spent most of 1992 and 1993 covering the war in Bosnia for the Post.
An Enduring Condition
My latest story, just published in the Nation, is an essay about Mary Dudziak’s new book, “War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences.” The essay notes that although war ...
An Enduring Condition
The Nation
May 9, 2012
The phrase “war on terror” is rarely heard these days. Our fight in Iraq ended last year with the pullout of the remaining troops. Combat forces are set to be withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2014, and their fade-away has been highlighted by the fact that more private contractors ...
Guggenheim Fellowship
Thank you, Guggenheim Foundation!
Eckerd College Environmental Film Festival
St. Petersburg, Florida
I will give a talk that introduces “Crude,” Joe Berlinger’s documentary about a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador.
Time: 7 pm
Location: Miller Auditorium, Eckerd College, 4200 54th Ave South, St. Petersburg, Florida
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Don’t worry, my website hasn’t been hacked. The headline for this post is the Russian title of Crude World. The Russian roughly translates as “Cruel World: The Severe Decline of the Oil Era,” which is a bit different from the original wording in English. If you’d ...
The Truth About Angelina Jolie and Me
Okay, the headline is a bit of an exaggeration, but not entirely. Angelina Jolie has just come out with a new movie about the Bosnian war that she wrote and directed, In the Land of Blood and Honey. She’s being sued by an obscure writer who accuses ...
Seeing Revolution: The Altered Image of War in New and Old Media
Rutgers, NJ
A talk at Rutgers on the evolving nature of conflict journalism, as both war and media are transformed by emerging technologies.
October 3, 2011
7-9 PM
Rutgers Student Center Multi-Purpose Room
126 College Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
What Happened at Macondo?
What Happened at the Macondo Well?
The New York Review of Books
September 29, 2011
The anniversary of the largest oil spill in American history passed with little notice this summer. On July 15, 2010, the ruptured BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was finally sealed after gushing oil for nearly three months, but there were few stories ...