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Day: March 24, 2016

The Chapter on IEDs

Filkins includes many descriptions of kids running around the rubble of whatever burned-out city he is reporting from. Sometimes the kids are scouts (to signal the insurgents… Read more “The Chapter on IEDs”

March 24, 2016 by anthropologist

Language!

In honor of Dexter Filkins’s The Forever War, Chapter 18 (“Fuck Us”), self has written a section of her new apocalyptic dystopian story, “Causes” (a sequel to… Read more “Language!”

March 24, 2016March 28, 2016 by anthropologist

Quotes of the Day: THE FOREVER WAR

“I am talking directly to the kidnappers.” (Ahmad, Shiite, Baghdad freelancer. “For eating, Sir!” was his answer when Filkins asked him why he kept a flock of… Read more “Quotes of the Day: THE FOREVER WAR”

March 24, 2016March 26, 2016 by anthropologist
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