Sebastian Junger

The war in Iraq gets more headlines, but US soldiers in Afghanistan are still battling it out with the Taliban and Al Qaeda the old-fashioned way – traveling on foot, building crude bunkers, and advancing slowly. Sebastian Junger and photographer Tim Hetherington joined an American platoon in the Korengal Valley, ...

Donald H. Straszheim, vice chairman of Roth Capital Partners, a securities firm in Los Angeles, and Sebastian Junger, contributing writer to Vanity Fair and the author of The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea and more recently A Death in Belmont, on China's influence ...

Kurt Andersen and the writer Sebastian Junger talk about why our culture is drawn to the menace and beauty of natural disaster. 

Junger wrote The Perfect Storm, the best-selling nonfiction book about a Gloucester, Massachusetts fishing crew lost in an extraordinary North Atlantic hurricane. His most recent book, Fire, is ...