2003- Archives

2003-

New Books

by Lidija Haas,

Discussed in this essay: Of Love & War, by Lynsey Addario. Penguin Press. 272 pages. $40. Heavy, by Kiese Laymon. Scribner. 256 pages. $26. The Letters of Sylvia Plath. Harper. 1088 pages. $45.…

Disunified Front

by Charles Glass,

The chaotic, underfunded battle against the Islamic State

The Warrior Class

by Charles Glass,

A golden age for the freelance soldier

Search and Destroy

by Andrew Cockburn,

The Pentagon’s losing battle against IEDs

Revision Accomplished

by James Bridle,

Plight Simulator

by Harper’s Staff,

Lines of dialogue from a test version of the First Person Cultural Trainer, a computer game developed by a research team at the University of Texas at Dallas. The game…

Coin Strategy

by Harper’s Staff,

From statements included in more than 800 claims for compensation submitted to the U.S. Army by the families of civilians killed in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2005 and 2007. The…

A Head for the Emir

by William T. Vollmann,

Travels in Iraqi Kurdistan

The War We Can’t Win

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

By Andrew J. Bacevich, in the August 15 issue of Commonweal. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University and the author, most recently, of The Limits of…

Bearing Arms

by Benjamin Busch,

The serious boy at war

The Activist

by Nick McDonell,

Alex de Waal among the war criminals