Mark Danner has contributed to the New York Times, the New York Review of Books and for years he was a staff writer on the New Yorker. 

But Mark is a long way from a tweedy academic. From his experiences on the ground in places like Haiti, Bosnia and Iraq he is able to depict how war looks and smells and feels. Some of his experiences are horrific and some, like a lunch meeting with Radovan Karadzic, are almost surreal.