The Things They Carried PublicAffairs Also in this issue: FICTION

Also in this issue: FICTION Patrick Flanery

A damn good read

bestselling author Colson Whitehead

an English idyll

shows you his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions

The Things They Carried PublicAffairs Also in this issue: FICTIONA classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim OBrien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam