Reserves
Phil Klay reads Andrew Bacevich’s important polemic on how we lost touch with our soldiers.
Phil Klay is a United States Marine Corps veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the author of the forthcoming short story collection, Redeployment.
Disappear
How do you write about Argentina’s Dirty War, when thousands were disappeared and executed? Phil Klay reads Patricio Pron’s new novel, My Father’s Ghost is Climbing in the Rain, and says he’s found the way.
STARS AND STRIPES
A World War II veteran shares an unexpected photo, and story, with Iraq War veteran Phil Klay.
Colum McCann
Colum McCann sits down with his former student, Phil Klay, to talk about his new novel, TransAtlantic, writing about war and peace, his new charity, Narrative4—and getting a pint.
Radical
In the midst of the Boston attacks, Phil Klay was reading an affecting novel that depicts terrorism, Islam, and radicalization from the Pakistani perspective. He praises Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden for making us see another side.