
Peter Maass
Peter Maass is a senior editor who has written about war, media, and national security for New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and the Washington Post. He reported on both civilians and combatants during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of “Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War,” an award-winning memoir about the conflict in Bosnia, and he wrote “Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.” He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012. He has taught writing at Princeton and Columbia universities, and had fellowships at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard and the American Academy in Berlin. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he lives in New York City.
U.S. Military Vets in Ukraine Are Fighting Each Other in Court
Amid accusations of fraud and sexual misconduct, the founders of the high-profile Mozart Group are waging a personal war back home.
It’s Easy to Write a Memoir About War — but Hard to Write an Anti-War Memoir
Lyle Jeremy Rubin’s book on Afghanistan wrestles with how to write about war without encouraging readers to follow his footsteps into battle.
VoicesNot a Joke, the Pentagon Wants to Name a Warship the USS Fallujah
Why is the U.S. choosing to celebrate its most murderous and merciless battles in Iraq?
VoicesAmerica’s 9/11 Wars Created the Foot Soldiers of Far-Right Violence at Home
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan radicalized a generation of veterans, many of whom face trials for sedition and other crimes.