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New Review from Brian Castner: Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Bomber Mafia”
Why did Malcolm Gladwell write a World War II book? The bombing campaign over Europe and Japan is hardly his typical …
New Review from M.C. Armstrong: Diane Lefer’s ‘Out of Place’
I can’t stop thinking about Dawit Tesfaye, an FBI agent in Diane Lefer’s excellent new novel, Out of Place. Shortly a…
New Review from Adrian Bonenberger: “‘The Hardest Place’: Wes Morgan’s Post-Mortem on Americans in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley”
If I were to write a morality tale about America’s counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan—something in line with Ed…
Praying at America’s Altar: A Review of Phil Klay’s MISSIONARIES, by Adrian Bonenberger
One of the first books I read was given to me by my father, who got it from his father—a children’s version of the Il…
A Review of Rufi Thorpe’s New Novel ‘The Knockout Queen,’ by Andria Williams
“Who deserves anything?” asks Lorrie Ann, one of the protagonists of Rufi Thorpe’s first novel, The Girls from Corona…
Fighting for All of Time: Katey Schultz’s Novel, ‘Still Come Home’
Still Come Home, the first novel from Flashes of War author Katey Schultz, opens in the tiny town of Imar, Afghanista…
Book Review by Eric Chandler: IT’S MY COUNTRY, TOO
This happened in the 1980’s. Maybe it was after I joined the military or before, when I was thinking about it. In eit…
Blood Money: C.E. Morgan’s ‘The Sport of Kings’
On May 17, 1875, under blue skies and wearing the flapping green-and-orange silks of his legendary employer J.P. McGr…
Bryan Hurt: The Next Ambassador to France
In a literary culture full of “McPoems” and hand-wringing over the homogenization of literature because of a supposed…