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August 2015 Issue [Reviews]

First-Person Shooters

What’s missing in contemporary war fiction

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A Big Enough Lie, by Eric Bennett. Triquarterly. 296 pages. $17.95.

The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers. Back Bay Books. 256 pages. $14.99.

Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, edited by Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton. Da Capo Press. 256 pages. $15.99.

Redeployment, by Phil Klay. Penguin Books. 304 pages. $16.

Fives and Twenty-Fives, by Michael Pitre. Bloomsbury. 400 pages. $17.

The Watch, by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya. Hogarth. 318 pages. $15.

Toward the end of 2012, when the first major fiction by veterans of the…

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is an editor at Open Letters Monthly and writes the Fiction Chronicle for the Wall Street Journal.

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