On Monday, September 9, join n+1 senior writer Richard Beck in conversation with former n+1 coeditor Nikil Saval at McNally Jackson’s South Street Seaport location in Manhattan. They’ll be discussing Beck’s new book, Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life, which is out in September from Crown and available for preorder from the n+1 bookstore.

Monday, September 9
6:30 PM
McNally Jackson Books
4 Fulton Street
New York

Praise for Homeland

“Homeland describes, with a beguiling mix of intellectual precision and passion, and from a novel perspective, the sinister mutations in American life induced by the war on terror. Everyone interested in the fate of democracy, or simply how violence abroad comes home, should read it.” —Pankaj Mishra

“In his comprehensive and disturbing assessment of the psychosis that the United States calls the war on ‘terror,’ Beck shows just how thoroughly the settler myth of Cowboys and Indians conditions North American civic life. Homeland is a prodigious study, exposing how this war has permeated both the state and public spaces, all while propagating a culture of impunity within a government that has both committed and supported crimes against humanity.” —Isabella Hammad

“Homeland is an immersive plunge into the icy tub of 21st-century American history as we’ve lived it so far. Beck puts the reader so deep in the action that you can hear the ‘U-S-A!’ chants. Chilling.” —Malcolm Harris

“Richard Beck, like many people alive today, has spent his adult life living in the shadow of 9/11, and Homeland is a devastating inquiry into the new world that day created. Many books have been written about Washington’s catastrophic response to the terrorists’ attacks. Beck is no less damning, but he is quieter, taking his time to tease out how endless war, moral cowardliness, and historical illiteracy have clotted the capillaries of our intellectual and ethical life. Homeland is among the best books I’ve yet read on the afterlives of 9/11.” —Greg Grandin

“On 9/11 the United States lost its mind, succumbing to a protracted bout of hubris, ineptitude, and heedless violence. Today Americans are inclined to expunge from memory the disasters that ensued. Richard Beck refuses to forget. In this eloquent and insightful account, he tallies up the perverse consequences of our own folly. An extraordinary achievement.” —Andrew Bacevich