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”
Day: March 24, 2016
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!”
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”
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