My book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State is out today. Read an excerpt in The Atlantic here.
Filed under: Atlantic Monthly, Uncategorized
22 March 2015 • 11:28 am 0
Dutch ways of seeing
I reviewed Laura Snyder’s new book, Eye of the Beholder, in the Spring American Scholar (subscription required).
Filed under: American Scholar, art, science
1 March 2015 • 11:23 am 3
What ISIS Really Wants
In The Atlantic.
With a follow-up here.
Filed under: Atlantic Monthly, Iraq, Middle East, religion, Syria, terrorism
16 January 2015 • 11:54 am 0
Why We Hate(d) Snipers
I wrote for The Boston Globe about the history of sniping.
Filed under: Boston Globe, Iraq, military
15 December 2014 • 11:48 am 0
Lighten Up
The American Scholar was kind enough to ask me for a contribution to its series on writing.
Filed under: American Scholar, writing
19 November 2014 • 4:59 pm 0
Ransoms: The real cost
The case against paying ransoms: at the New York Review of Books blog.
Filed under: NYRB
16 November 2014 • 11:52 am 0
On the Middle East’s Vanishing Religions
I interviewed Gerard Russell, author of Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, for The Boston Globe.
Filed under: Boston Globe, Iraq, Middle East, religion
16 September 2014 • 10:05 pm 2
How Gangs Took over Prisons
My latest, in the October Atlantic.
Filed under: Atlantic Monthly, California, crime, prisons
