PositiveThe New RepublicWar Porn offers a view of the American military unlike anything else written about Iraq or Afghanistan ... fighting is peripheral to the story. Instead, Scranton chooses to focus on the struggle for humanity that comes in quiet moments ... Scranton resists the temptation to deliver a redemptive or sympathetic moment for soldiers who misbehave or suffer humiliation ... at times Scranton’s Iraqi characters seem unable to speak without using a parable or sharing sage bits of wisdom. But Qasim’s story is critical to the book’s universe and delivers a crushing payout in the end ... an undeniably courageous book.
