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Nathan Webster

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Nathan S. Webster reported from Iraq several times as a freelance photojournalist, and his work was published in dozens of newspapers nationwide. He writes on a variety of topics.
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Unbridled Power in All Its Majestic Terror: Will Bardenwerper’s The Prisoner in His Palace

  • Nathan Webster
  • June 13, 2017
As we begin our own Age of the Strongman, Hussein’s almost effortless manipulation—of soldiers expecting exactly that behavior—shows how susceptible we all might be to the sheer force of a big personality.
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The Strangely Plausible Abyss of American War

  • Nathan Webster
  • March 28, 2017
In Akkad’s dystopian scenario, the US faces a resurgent Mexico and a vast and newly powerful North African-Arabian empire.
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War Porn by Roy Scranton

  • Nathan Webster
  • September 26, 2016
Nathan Webster reviews War Porn by Roy Scranton today in Rumpus Books.
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The Devil’s Detective and The Devil’s Evidence by Simon Kurt Unsworth

  • Nathan Webster
  • August 18, 2016
Nathan Webster reviews The Devil's Detective and The Devil's Evidence today in Rumpus Books.
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A Big Enough Lie by Eric Bennett

  • Nathan Webster
  • January 12, 2016
Nathan Webster reviews A Big Enough Lie by Eric Bennett today in Rumpus Books.
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Bedrooms of the Fallen by Ashley Gilbertson

  • Nathan Webster
  • July 4, 2014
I lost my photo. Part of it, anyway. I lost some of the painless pride of ownership, the selfish satisfaction of creation.
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