Dexter Filkins' The Forever War: Eight Years (and Counting) in Iraq and Afghanistan

The Forever War is an astonishingly good book about a subject many Americans are increasingly resistant to inquire about. If it weren’t fact-based, but a novel, it would simply be a haunting work about the frailty of the human condition.

THE FOREVER WAR | By DEXTER FILKINS | Alfred A. Knopf | 384 pages | $25 hardcover

Filkins on the ground: A muted presence

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Dexter Filkins appears with fellow foreign correspondent Farnaz Fassihi at ALOUD, Los Angeles Central Library, on Thursday, September 18 at 7 p.m. (213) 228-7025 or aloudla.org.

Evan Wright is the author of Generation Kill. He was last in Iraq in August 2007, reporting on the U.S. troop surge.