PositiveThe New Yorker\"Colvin’s life has been memorably chronicled by Hilsum ... it is Hilsum’s biography, written by a woman who both knew Colvin and had access to her unpublished reporting notes and private diaries—a trove of some three hundred notebooks—that seems to most closely capture her spirit ... Indeed, some of the most startlingly humorous episodes in In Extremis have to do with Colvin’s interactions with [Yasir Arafat and Muammar Qaddafi] ... Hilsum has been a sensitive curator with these [letters and private e-mails], but some extracts still make for uncomfortably intimate reading.\
