Brian Castner is the author of The Long Walk, an Amazon Best Book of 2012. He is a former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer and military contractor, and served two combat tours in Iraq as a bomb squad commander. His writing has appeared in a number of national and regional publications, including Wired, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Outside, and Foreign Policy.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A Long, Complicated War
Brian Castner interviews Matt Gallagher, author of "Youngblood."...
On Reading Graham Greene in Liberia in a Time of Ebola
Featuring photographs by Cheryl Hatch....
Afghanistan: A Stage Without a Play
Why has the Afghanistan war produced almost no poetry or fiction, compared to the multiplicity of war writing from Iraq?...
