Gracias. Hollywood's struggle to make a really entertaining/ satisfying movie about Iraq and Afghanistan is very curious. I mean, Lone Survivor and/or American Sniper might just be the best of the bunch.

"...a Thanksgiving Day orgy of congratulations and celebration..." acolytesofwar.com/2017/08/13/w...

So what's going to happen when the directive to expel this wave of Afghan emigres runs up against the CIA imperative to watch out for them?

Great review--terse, but highly alert and urgent. The best kind, as if the book and the subject were transmitting something important directly to you.

Come to this post for the pictures and anecdotes about fun meals, stay for Roxana Robinson's trenchant thoughts about war-writing.

Thanks for your thanks! I'm enjoying it, too, and I'm only about halfway through, so there's a lot more to come.

Agree! It was an exciting panel to be part of. Some of the participants have drifted away from the war-writing scene since, sad to say, but everyone brought their "A" game to the event.

It's remarkable that the website we created for this MLA panel is still up-and-running. Let's give it some love! contemporarywar.mla.hcommons.org