The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accelerating civic breakdown, in an indelible eyewitness narrative of startling explanatory powerAfter years of living abroad and covering the Global War on Terrorism, Luke Mogelson went home in early 2020 to report on the social discord that the pandemic was bringing to the fore across the US. An assignment that began with right-wing militias in Michigan soon took...

Specchiarsi nell’America, tentando a seconda dei casi di somigliarle il più o il meno possibile, è un esercizio cui gli occidentali si dedicano quasi da quando l’America esiste. Ma da qualche tempo, quello specchio è diventato scuro, e rimanda immagini sempre più confuse e allarmanti. Luke Mogelson, uno dei grandi reporter dell’ultima generazione, è stato fra i primi ad accorgersene e a mettersi in strada, cominciando un lungo viaggio che da Owosso, in Michigan – dalla bottega di Karl Mank...

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory explanatory power.'This is a searing book, exquisitely reported, lyrically told, and so vivid it will make your heart stop-a dark journey into what ails America' Patrick Radden Keefe...

Un vétéran cherche à reconquérir sa femme et part la retrouver chez ses parents, là où elle s'est réfugiée après qu'il l'a frappée.Une mère célibataire fait de longs trajets pour aller voir son fils en prison - il a tué un homme d'un coup de poing lors d'une permission.Un infirmier de retour de mission élit domicile dans un réduit de l'arsenal de la garde nationale de New York, incapable de rentrer chez lui.Un journaliste raconte sa vie en Afghanistan, entre ironie et ...

With his harrowing debut, Luke Mogelson provides an unsentimental, unflinching glimpse into the lives of those forever changed by war. Subtle links between these ten powerful stories magnify the consequences of combat for both soldiers and civilians, as the violence experienced abroad echoes through their lives in America.Troubled veterans first introduced as criminals in “To the Lake” and “Visitors” are shown later in “New Guidance” and “Kids,” during the deployments that shaped th...

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accelerating civic breakdown, in an indelible eyewitness narrative of startling explanatory powerAfter years of living abroad and covering the Global War on Terrorism, Luke Mogelson went home in early 2020 to report on the social discord that the pandemic was bringing to the fore across the US. An assignment that began with right-wing militias in Michigan soon took...

The Storm is Here is a record of a year that changed America.The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory explanatory powerOn the morning of January 6, a gallows was erected on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. A little after noon, as thousands of Trump supporters marched past ...

With his harrowing debut, Luke Mogelson provides an unsentimental, unflinching glimpse into the lives of those forever changed by war. Subtle links between these ten powerful stories magnify the consequences of combat for both soldiers and civilians, as the violence experienced abroad echoes through their lives in America.Troubled veterans first introduced as criminals in “To the Lake” and “Visitors” are shown later in “New Guidance” and “Kids,” during the deployments that shaped th...

Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives.Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in War and Imagination offer an opportunity to challenge representations ...