Volunteers brave wilderness

Volunteers brave wildernessA beautiful and powerfully affecting portrait of a boyhood in a military family. Phil Klay, author of Missionaries and the National Book Award winning Redeployment As a child, Jerad Alexander lay in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. As a teenager at an American base in Japan, he immersed himself in war games, war movies, and pulpy novels about Vietnam. Obsessed with all things military, he

and beauty Danny Gregory and his wife

Hallie Preskill

a beleaguered model of democracy

washing and waxing cars and doing anything he could to help the business

dug for clams on Cape Cod

and irresistibly illustrated

000 troops to the European theater

others insist humanity should fight alone

Strong introduces readers to Rob Kearney and his journey from an athletic kid trying to find his place to the world’s first openly gay professional strongman

in many cases

one that embraces hormonal cycles as adaptive solutions to genuine biological challenges

Sean Brock shares his recipes for key components of the cuisine