The Soccer War / Ryszard Kapuscinski -- El Salvadorian aide-memoire / Carolyn Forche -- The Fall of Saigon / James Fenton -- The Waste Land / Marilynne Robinson -- Women and Power in Cuba / Germaine Greer -- Forced Busing / Joseph Lelyveld -- Gibraltar / Ian Jack -- Tiananmen Square / John Simpson -- The Invasion of Panama / Martha Gellhorn -- In Romania / William McPherson -- Boys in Zinc / Svetlana Alexiyevich -- The Unbearable Peace / John le Carre -- Los Angeles / Richard Rayner