Writing of War
The frustrated writer in me cannot help but support combat veterans and others who are working to write down their experiences in ways that can help each of us experience the aftermaths of War in a life.
Military Experience & the Arts
A volunteer-led organization that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art work of combat veterans and their loved ones, as well as leads workshops to promote creative expression as a way to move forward after War.
A news and culture site, written and edited by combat veterans, with regular updates that comment and inform about all matters related to veterans, from the comic to the tragic, from the practical to the ideal.
Time Now: The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars in Art, Film, and Literature
Always interesting, often provocative, ever eloquent thoughts on these Wars as they are now being portrayed and reviewed in the aesthetic world.
FOR AN EXCELLENT LIST OF WORKS, CURRENT THROUGH DECEMBER 2016, see the list below. For Peter Molin’s original post, click here.
A group dedicated to bringing combat veterans’ stories into words and into the world, with writings, seminar offerings, and mentorship, based out of Washington DC.
Based out of New York City, a group of veteran writers dedicated to bringing the best of veteran writing to the world–and to encouraging such writing from all those who wish to tell their stories.
16 December 2016
Iraq and Afghanistan War Fiction:
2008
Nadeem Aslam: The Wasted Vigil (2008)
2011
Siobhan Fallon (Army spouse): You Know When the Men Are Gone (2011)
Helen Benedict: Sand Queen (2011)
2012
David Abrams (Army): Fobbit (2012)
Ben Fountain: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012)
Kevin Powers (Army): The Yellow Birds (2012)
Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya: The Watch (2012)
2013
Sinan Antoon, The Corpse Washer (2013)
Nadeem Aslam: The Blind Man’s Garden (2013)
Lea Carpenter: Eleven Days (2013)
Masha Hamilton: What Changes Everything (2013)
Hilary Plum: They Dragged Them Through the Streets (2013)
Roxana Robinson: Sparta (2013)
J.K. Rowling (aka Robert Galbraith): The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013)
Katey Shultz: Flashes of War (2013)
Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, edited by Roy Scranton (Army) and Matt Gallagher (Army) (2013)
2014
Paul Avallone: Tattoo Zoo (2014)
Greg Baxter: The Apartment (2014)
Hassan Blasim, The Corpse Exhibition (2014)
Aaron Gwynn: Wynne’s War (2014)
Kara Hoffman: Be Safe, I Love You (2014)
Atticus Lish (USMC): Preparation for the Next Life (2014)
Phil Klay (USMC): Redeployment (2014)
Michael Pitre (USMC): Fives and Twenty-Fives (2014)
2015
Eliot Ackerman (USMC): Green on Blue (2015)
Brandon Caro (Navy): Old Silk Road (2015)
Jesse Goolsby (USAF): I’d Walk With My Friends If I Could Find Them (2015)
John Renehan (Army): The Valley (2015)
Ross Ritchell (Army): The Knife (2015)
Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite (Army): War of the Encylopaedists (2015)
2016
Matt Gallagher (Army), Youngblood (2016)
Matthew Hefti (Air Force), A Hard and Heavy Thing (2016)
Odie Lindsey (Army), We Come to Our Senses (2016)
Elizabeth Marro, Casualties (2016)
Luke Mogelson, These Heroic, Happy Dead (2016)
Harry Parker, Anatomy of a Soldier (2016)
Scott Pomfret, You Are the One (2016)
Roy Scranton (Army), War Porn (2016)
Whitney Terrell, The Good Lieutenant (2016)
Maximilian Uriarte (USMC), The White Donkey (2016)
Iraq and Afghanistan War Poetry:
2005
Juliana Spahr: This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (2005)
Brian Turner (Army): Here, Bullet (2005)
2006
Walt Piatt (Army), Paktika (2006)
2008
Sinan Antoon, The Baghdad Blues (2008)
2010
Jehanne Dubrow (Navy spouse): Stateside (2010)
Elyse Fenton (Army spouse): Clamor (2010)
Brian Turner (Army): Phantom Noise (2010)
2012
Paul Wasserman (USAF): Say Again All (2012)
Colin Halloran (Army): Shortly Thereafter (2012)
2013
Amalie Flynn (Navy spouse): Wife and War (2013)
2014
Kevin Powers (Army): Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting (2014)
2015
Randy Brown, aka “Charlie Sherpa” (Army): Welcome to FOB Haiku (2015)
Colin Halloran (Army): Icarian Flux (2015)
Philip Metres: Sand Opera (2015)
Washing the Dust from Our Hearts: Poetry and Prose from the Afghan Women Writing Project (2015)
2016
Home Front: Jehanne Dubrow’s Stateside, Elyse Fenton’s Clamor, Bryony Doran’s Bulletproof, and Isabel Palmer’s Atmospherics (2016, UK only).
2016 Iraq and Afghanistan Non-fiction
Andrew Bacevich, America’s War for the Middle East (2016)
Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon (2016)
Brian Castner, All the Ways We Kill and Die: An Elegy for a Fallen Comrade and the Hunt for His Killer (2016)
Eric Fair, Consequence: A Memoir (2016)
Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (2016)
David J. Morris, The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (2016)
Mary Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016)
J. Kael Weston, The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan (2016)
Kori Schake and Jim Mattis, editors, Warriors and Citizens: American Views of the Military (2016)
Michael Flynn, The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies (2016)
Iraq and Afghanistan Memoir and Reportage
2005
Colby Buzzell (Army): My War: Killing Time in Iraq (2005)
2010
Sebastian Junger: War (2010)
Matt Gallagher (Army): Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War (2010)
2012
Benjamin Busch (USMC): Dust to Dust (2012)
Brian Castner (Air Force): The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life that Follows (2012)
2014
Adrian Bonenburger (Army): Afghan Post: One Soldier’s Correspondence from America’s Forgotten War (2014)
Jennifer Percy: Demon Camp (2014)
Brian Turner (Army): My Life as a Foreign Country (2014)
2015
Colby Buzzell (Army): Thank You For Being Expendable (2015)
Roy Scranton (Army): Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (2015)
2016
Hilary Plum, Watchfires. Rescue Press, 2016.
Iraq and Afghanistan War Photography:
2010
Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington: Infidel (2010)
Benjamin Busch (USMC): The Art in War (2010)
2013
Michael Kamber: Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq (2013)
Iraq and Afghanistan War Film:
2007
In the Valley of Elah, Paul Haggis, director (2007)
Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford, director (2007)
2008
The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, director (2008)
Standard Operating Procedures, director Errol Morris (2008)
Stop-Loss, Kimberly Pierce, director (2008)
Generation Kill, David Simon and Ed Burns, executive producers (2008)
2009
Brothers, Jim Sheridan (2009)
Restrepo, Sebastian Junger, director (2009)
The Messenger, Oren Moverman, director (2009)
2010
Green Zone, Paul Greengrass, director (2010)
2012
Zero-Dark-Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, director (2012)
2013
Lone Survivor, Peter Berg, director (2013)
2014
American Sniper, Clint Eastwood, director (2014)
Korengal, Sebastian Junger, director (2014)
The Last Patrol, Sebastian Junger, director (2014)
Fort Bliss, Claudia Myers, director (2014)
2015
Man Down, Dito Monteil, director (2015)
A War, Tobias Lindholm, director (2015)
2016
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee, director (2016)
War Dogs, Todd Phillips, director (2016)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Glenn Ficarra and John Reque, directors (2016)
Iraq and Afghanistan War Theater, Opera, and Dance:
2007
Exit 12 Dance Company, directed by Roman Baca, New York City (2007)
2008
Theater of War (staged reading of Greek drama and interactive cast-and-audience discussion), directed by Brian Doerries (2008)
2009
The Great Game: Afghanistan (drama), directed by Nicolas Kent and Indhu Rubasingham, New York City (2009)
2011
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, written by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Moises Kaufman, starring Robin Williams, New York City (2011)
2012
Home of the Soldier, written by Ben Cunis, directed by Paata Tsikurishvili/Synthetic Theater, Arlington, VA (2012)
2013
You Know When the Men Are Gone, based on stories by Siobhan Fallon, directed by Joel Mullennix and Amy Kossow/Word for Word Performing Arts Company, San Francisco (2013)
2014
Goliath (drama), written by Takeo Rivera, directed by Alex Mallory/Poetic Theater, New York City (2014)
2015
Dilja Wal Forat: Between the Tigris and the Euphrates (drama), written by Maurice Decaul, directed by Alex Mallory/Poetic Theater, New York City (2015)
The Long Walk (opera), based on Brian Castner’s memoir of the same name, music by Jeremy Howard Beck, libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann/American Lyric Theater, Saratoga, NY (2015)
Iraq and Afghanistan War Criticism:
2007
Elizabeth Samet: Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point (2007)
2011
Stacey Peebles: Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier’s Experience in Iraq (2011)
2014
Elizabeth Samet: No Man’s Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America (2014)
2015
Brian Doerries: The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today (2015)
Ikram Masmoudi: War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction (2015)
Listening to War 