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...PHOTO ESSAY...
Located near the Afghan border at the center of the chaos that threatens to engulf the region, Quetta is a rough-and-tumble town flooded with refugees, drugs, guns, Islamic militancy and, most of all, fear. Alexandra Boulat's striking photo essay captures the mood. time.com/pakistan...
Events have overtaken Sebastian Junger’s new book Fire with the same uncertainty and rapidity of the wildfires that raced across the western United States in the title essay. What was originally supposed to be a book about dangerous professions and later remade into an compilation of essays has turned into a book tour on the fears and unknown variables of America’s expanding war in Afghanistan...
Because it takes months for a book to go to press, it is entirely coincidence that Junger’s last chapter, the most recent essay, narrates his time last year with Ahmed Shah Massoud, then the leader of Afghanistan’s rebel Northern Alliance. Last year, when Junger spent a month with Massoud in the mountains of the Afghanistan, Massoud was an unknown in the western world—despite orchestrating some of the most brilliant warfare waged in the 1980s and 1990s and holding off first the Soviet Army and then the Taliban regime for years. Many...
Although his Afghanistan essay, “Lion in Winter,” might appear to be the most relevant and timely, his most important point resides in his other essays, primarily the title essay on forest fire-fighting and a historical essay on a nineteenth-century fur-trapper. Junger offers a valuable lesson for life in post-Sept. 11 America: what heroism really means...