When Americans refer to the Viet Nam War, most are talking about the decade of active military combat that killed more than fifty-eight thousand Americans and an estimated 1.4 million Vietnamese civilians, ending with the fall of Saigon in 1975. To Americans of a...
Matt Gallagher builds a strange but familiar world in his new novel, Empire City. An incredible mix of speculative genres, he has a science fantasy, alternate history/future, superhero, dystopian view on what would happen to our country, and in some ways the world, if...
As a Marine, I grew to appreciate contour lines—those brown lines and spaces on a topographical map–at The Basic School, in Quantico where I struggled to find marked ammo-cans attached to stakes jutting out of the earth, and hidden in vegetation or plain sight. All...
