In the London Review of Books, Jeremy Harding writes about a “gripping little book” entitled Reporting Iraq. I’ve ordered the book this morning, drawn by the idea of this being an oral history offered by the journalists, about the work they were doing and also, of course, about the place they were working in. (If one thinks of journalists’ accounts about life in Iraq, of the books I’ve read Rajiv Chadrasekaran’s Imperial Life in the Emerald City is the one that presents the most vivid portrait of the hubris of the Bush administration, from Bremer down to his twenty-year-old minions in Baghdad–the latter given responsibilities like managing budgets of $13 billion because, having served as foot-soldiers in the Republican election campaigns, they had had the gumption to send in their resumes to a conservative think-tank or two.)

Harding begins with a discussion of images by photographer Chris Hondros of Getty Images. The photo above is a recent one that Hondros took in the Diyala Province.

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