the kicker

End of the Rhode

October 22, 2009

The final installment of New York Times reporter David Rohde’s gripping story of his captivity with the Taliban–in which he describes his escape and his emotional reunion-by-telephone with his family–has been posted, along with a sober epilogue.

Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.