Bookworm, no. 88
Jadine Ngan reviews Catherine Lang’s “Embedded.” Kayla Penteliuk on Chido Muchemwa’s “Who Will Bury You?” A page from Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s “Heaven and Hell.” Poetry by Keith Garebian.
Front Lines
Embedded: The Irreconcilable Nature of War, Loss and Consequence
Catherine Lang
Caitlin Press
228 pages, softcover
On December 11, 2009, the thirty-four-year-old Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang began a new assignment: six weeks embedded with Canadian troops near Kandahar, Afghanistan. The charismatic and tenacious journalist wasn’t particul…
