My book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State is out! Read an excerpt in The Atlantic here.| Graeme Wood
I reviewed Laura Snyder’s new book, Eye of the Beholder, in the Spring American Scholar (subscription required).| Graeme Wood
I wrote for The Boston Globe about the history of sniping.| Graeme Wood
The American Scholar was kind enough to ask me for a contribution to its series on writing.| Graeme Wood
The case against paying ransoms: at the New York Review of Books blog.| Graeme Wood
I interviewed Gerard Russell, author of Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, for The Boston Globe.| Graeme Wood
In the September 10 edition of The New Republic.| Graeme Wood
I wrote about Minerva University for the September Atlantic.| Graeme Wood
In the September 1 issue of The New Republic.| Graeme Wood
Originally appeared in Pacific Standard.Review of The Truman Show Delusion by Joel and Ian Gold.In 2003, at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Joel Gold met his first patient suffering from what is …| Graeme Wood
UNTIL THE LAST YEAR, when the Central African Republic’s civil war became a humanitarian crisis too dire to ignore, most Americans thought little about the country at all. It has a low global profi…| Graeme Wood
Three years ago, I asked an Afghan with ties to the Taliban what he had heard about captured Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. He replied that Bergdahl had briefly escaped, then been found hiding in a tree b…| Graeme Wood
Originally appeared in The Barnes and Noble Review. Review of No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald Long before Edward Snowden selected Glenn Greenwald as the bucket into which he would direct his NS…| Graeme Wood