Tim O’Brien’s Latest Novel Embraces Political Cynicism

America Fantastica is Tim O’Brien’s only novel to take place in a post-9/11 world. Sent off to war by his hometown draft board in 1969, the young O’Brien solidified his literary celebrity within the decade, establishing himself in short order as the most influential Vietnam War writer in the United States. He maintained this posture […]

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