Book reviews

Every war produces its own iconic protestors. Vietnam, for example, had Ron Kovic, disabled in combat, and part of the campaigning group Vietnam Veterans Against the War, whose memoir, Born on the Fourth of July, was eventually made into a movie by Oliver Stone. One day, if the United States ever gets to look back [...]

When Torture Taxi, by Trevor Paglen, “an expert on clandestine military installations,” and crime journalist A.C. Thompson was published in the United States in September 2006, it was the first book to focus on the CIA’s programme of “extraordinary rendition,” in which, as the authors describe it, terror suspects “were taken to countries where they [...]

For the background on Dick Cheney’s rise to power, I recommend John Nichols’ Dick: The Man Who Is President (New Press, 2004), published in paperback in 2005 as The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney. This is a review that I wrote for the website Nth Position:
The man at the heart of investigative reporter [...]

While I’m working on The Guantanamo Files, here’s something relevant to the whole topic: a review I did of Mark Danner’s excellent analysis of the Abu Ghraib scandal, Torture and Truth, which was featured on the Nth Position website:
‘Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror’ by Mark Danner (Granta, 2005)
On April [...]