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Roger Cohen is foreign editor of the New York Times,
where he has worked since 1990, primarily as Paris
correspondent and as bureau chief in the Balkans and
Berlin. Before that he reported for Reuters and the Wall
Street Journal. He has received innumerable awards,
including four from the Overseas Press Club. In 2001, he
was awarded a lectureship at Harvard. His last book, on the
Balkan war, was a New York Times Notable Book of the
Year. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Books by Roger Cohen

An Affirming Flame

“For more than forty years Roger Cohen has ventured to every corner of the earth to chronicle the great upheavals of our age, but he’s never lost sight of what really matters: love, hope, and all the mysteries of the human heart. Here, in this collection of columns that will take you from the streets of Kyiv to an execution chamber in Alabama, you can read him at his best.”—Dexter Filkins, best-selling author of The Forever War

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