Stephen Phillips

Writing that burns the eyes

Hersey’s article describing the effects of the atomic bomb, published in the New Yorker in 1946, was arguably the most influential of the century

  • Mr Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima

    Jeremy Treglown

    Farrar Strauss Giroux, pp. 384

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