James Verini is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic. His new book is They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate.
“War is mostly down time. War is mostly waiting around for something to happen.”
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Verini's archive on Longform
Longform Podcast #147: James Verini
[4:19] They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate (W.W. Norton • 2019)
[12:12] “The Prosecutor and the President” (The New York Times Magazine • 2016)
[37:11] Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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