What Am I Doing Here is a collection of journalism and new pieces assembled on Chatwin's deathbed. Reviews, articles, memories. It is hard to find a weak piece or bad sentence. The worst you can say about his carved, icy prose is that it occasionally crosses into archness or effect for its own sake. But you don't have to say that often.
Chatwin's review of Ernst Jünger's wartime diaries (see here for my look at 'The Devil's Captain: Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944') is still the best Engl...