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- 'Children of the Stone' a moving look at music's power in Palestine
- 'Heavy' by Kiese Laymon may be the most important memoir you read this year
- 'Homeland' in My Home Land
- 'The Narrow Door' is a stirring memoir of friends at their best and worst
- 12 Jobs From My Recent Past
- 6 Books That Helped Nathan Deuel Make Sense of War and Exile
- A Former Soviet Union: Elliott Holt's "You Are One of Them"
- A Hardee's in Beirut
- A Life in Our Hands: Community, Crime, and Punishment - On Jesse Ball's 'Silence Once Begun'
- A Life-Saving Bond Between In-Laws
- A Week in Beirut
- A paradise's costs
- A review of 'Public Apology,' by Dave Bry
- A tale of two Arabian cities
- Against Travel
- Amazed and Confused: My Night at the Movies
- America by the Yard
- Anthony Is Dead
- At the track, near the tents
- Beached
- Beirut, After Osama
- Beirut, Texas
- Bend, don't break
- Blood in the water
- Bob Shacochis travels the world in 'Kingdoms in the Air,' but doesn't always enjoy it
- Bombs Over Sad Dad: IMing with Nathan Deuel
- Bones
- Book Notes - Nathan Deuel "Friday Was the Bomb"
- Checkpoint Qatif: Shoulder-to-shoulder with Saudi's Shiite minority
- Christmas in Exile
- Citizen of somewhere
- Daniel Alarcón's Haunting Political Fiction
- David Rees is unstoppable
- Did I see a man die this morning?
- Down in the floods, something in Saudi Arabia may have changed
- Election 2012. Location: In Hamra, Beirut…
- Embedded at the Mayo Clinic
- Even More Recent History
- Expat lives: Los Angeles to Ramallah
- Expat lives: from Canberra to Phnom Penh
- Expat lives: from New Jersey to Jordan
- FEAST NEAR THE FIRTH OF FORTH
- FRIDAY WAS THE BOMB: AN INTERVIEW WITH ESSAYIST, JOURNALIST AND DEBUT NONFICTION WRITER NATHAN DEUEL
- Fear is Fun: Nathaniel Rich's "Odds Against Tomorrow"
- Finding Words For What Is Horrible: Nathan Deuel on Aleksandar Hemon's "The Book of My Lives"
- Fire lookout Philip Connors' reckoning in 'A Song for the River'
- Fitness for Foreigners
- Flood-Tide Below Me
- Get on the bus
- Getting Out of the Picture: On Being Nick Flynn, a Review of 'The Enactments'
- Going Soft
- Good knives
- Green Green Grass
- Growing Up and Plugging Out
- Hawks and Doves in Kurdistan
- Holiday in Baghdad
- Home tweet home
- House-Hunting After the Bomb
- How Waze Has Changed Driving, For Better And For Worse
- How to Succeed — in a Van, and Otherwise
- I WALKED FROM MARINA DEL REY TO MALIBU — AND IT WAS A LOT LIKE BEIRUT
- I didn’t see you there
- I dream of war
- I smell dead people
- I survived the Staten Island Mall
- I'm afraid of Virginia Woolf: On war movies, adolescence, and the 50th anniversary of Albee's masterpiece
- In 'The Browns of California,' Miriam Pawel shows how Pat and Jerry Brown shaped a state and a nation
- In 'The New Arabs,' millennials are key to remade Middle East
- In Defense of National Airlines
- In Defense of Verlyn Klinkenborg
- In Istanbul, Getting to Ikea and Back
- In praise of nightmares
- In the age of Google Maps, why walk the 4,000 mile Nile River? Levison Wood's book explains
- In which my friend tells me he's leaving forever
- Inertia
- Innocent and Abroad: Mark Twain and the Art of Travel Writing
- Innocents at home
- Into the Steam
- Jonah Lehrer returns with 'A Book About Love.' Can it rescue his reputation?
- Jonestown, Naipaul, and me
- LA Story
- Land of Milk and Money
- Last night, at the checkpoint
- Learning To Take A Stand
- Leaving Egypt, with regrets: The evacuated students of Cairo
- Letter of Recommendation: New Balance 990s
- Let’s Go Ride a Bike
- Life in Beirut
- Life near the center
- Like father, unlike son
- Lines From The New Yorker's 3.5-Star Yelp Listing
- Living in Riyadh's ghost town
- Loss haunts Rabih Alameddine's new novel, 'Angel of History'
- Mark Doten's 'The Infernal' a darkly twisted take on Iraq war
- More countries for an old man
- My favorite American painter
- Nathan Deuel on 'Friday was the Bomb,' his Middle East memoir
- Nathan Deuel was a new father whose wife covered war in Iraq and Syria
- Nathan Deuel: The TNB Self-Interview
- Night of the gun
- Not dead, I was nonetheless hit by a car today
- On Maleness and Deep Springs College
- Once Upon a Time in the Middle East
- One man's journey from the Middle East to the Midwest
- PEOPLE LIKE US
- Party Bus
- Password Requirements
- Reading Stephen King in Riyadh
- Reading These 5 Writers Will Make You a Better Person
- Reality Strikes: Mark Haskell Smith's "Raw"
- Remembering Anthony Shadid in Beirut
- Right by the beach, and the bus depot
- Right into the fire
- Rising Temperatures: On Maggie O'Farrell's "Instructions for a Heatwave"
- Sandwich Man
- Saudi Arabia's got talent
- Self and concept collide in experimental collection 'When the Sick Rule the World'
- Senior Poetry
- Shrink raps: Three books refract Sigmund Freud
- Since the last war
- Stealing a few shady hours in an offramp's not-park
- Swimming Upstream: A Memoir in Pools
- THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH NATHAN DEUEL
- THE TRUE FICTIONS OF JOAN DIDION: REVISITING 'MIAMI' AND 'PLAY IT AS IT LAYS'
- Take It From a Soldier: On Kevin Powers's "Yellow Birds"
- Tensions run through it
- Thanksgiving Abroad: A Bittersweet Holiday in Beirut
- That Time I Took the Bus and Everything Was Great
- The American way of beef
- The Boulevard of Broken Bones
- The Cantina Scene
- The Greatest Rock Show I'd Ever Seen
- The Hipster Brewmeister of ... Beirut
- The Korean quagmire
- The Noise
- The Tender Underbelly of Soldiers: Phil Klay’s Lives During Wartime
- The Year in Nathan Deuel, 2014 Edition
- The cannibal birds of Burgazada
- The cruel wit of Evelyn Waugh
- The little things my father would never do again
- The writing life: From Beirut and Cambodia to New York, Florida, and parts unknown
- Total Eclipse of the Bar: Nathan Deuel on ‘Turn Around Bright Eyes’
- Train of Thought: Meditations on NYC and the End of Summer
- Turkey Before the Crackdown
- Un-American activities
- Unquiet Americans
- Up in the old hotel
- WITHOUT CHIEF OR TRIBE: AN EXCERPT FROM 'FRIDAY WAS THE BOMB'
- Wayne Barrett, The Best Reporter I Ever Knew
- Welcome to Venice Beach
- What are you reading now?
- When I finally saw my blood
- When teenaged Saudi girls attack!
- Where We Used to Live
- Where seeing a woman makes you gasp
- Who was Barry Hannah writing for?
- Ye Who Enter, Abandon Hope: Hell Is a Hospital in Lore Segal's "Half the Kingdom"
- You'll never walk alone
- You're Not From Here