Euan Ferguson

Hard not to laugh when you’re told about Claymore landmines. I am being told of them by a helpful young Sri Lankan near a military checkpoint.

One of the United States’s best-loved writers tells Euan Ferguson how an unlikely accident can make a likely story.

”When you see Darfur from almost a kilometre up, you realise nature doesn’t like geometry … As we civilised beings fly overhead, men are busy down below trying to kill each…