DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS launches today! Grounded in my five years working in CAR, Mali, Libya, Ukraine, and Syria. Featuring interviews with 40 #Wagner mercenaries, executives, and affiliates. Pick it up wherever books are sold! https://t.co/1X1ZAvhQkM

YOUR NAME HERE by @helendewitt & @IlyaGridneff is a Top 10 Book of 2025 from @PublishersWkly!! "It’s poised to restore even the most jaded reader’s faith in the fun and power of literature." @Dalkey_Archive

the backlash to that piece is juiceless because nobody knows what ethnographical essay writing is anymore. not all writing has to be petty gotcha take-ism but here we are

Maps, photos, fonts, in-jokes, and emails populate “Your Name Here,” the new novel from @IlyaGridneff and @helendewitt, so it’s perhaps not surprising that the book’s road to publication was a rocky one. Here, more or less, is how it happened: https://t.co/xRUSp3u9qv

300 ratings for DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS on Goodreads! And just like in high school, I’m cruising along with a comfortable C+

Big #US-#Libya news: @USAfricaCommand announces Sirte as a site of next year's Flintlock exercise in a bid to reunify the armed forces in #Tripoli and Khalifa Haftar's #Benghazi-based Libyan National Army. My latest for @jeune_afrique @TheAfricaReport: https://t.co/vM7tRfExEh

If you're so worried about the pay at small magazines like n+1 then can i suggest you support them and subscribe?

A lot of exciting fiction coming out these past few weeks @emotrophywife @SemiotextePress

🎧I joined the Foreign Affairs podcast to discuss how and what the Russian military is learning as an organization at war, even as its core flaws remain unaddressed. There is a great deal of activity underway across Russia to convert combat experience into retained knowledge.

BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

This looks awesome

Some exciting new acquisitions @SemiotextePress @snjeriwambugu

"Lechner, an independent journalist fluent in Russian and at ease in combat zones, has succeeded more than any other Western reporter in gaining access to Wagner." It's always been a dream to have a book reviewed in @nybooks! https://t.co/mmM8gFMS9N

In chapter 3, @JohnLechner1 explores a fascinating aspect of Wagner's involvement in Africa; that there was a precursor of diplomacy before full-fledged operations in the continent. 1/ @BloomsburyBooks

Gotta love DC. They can’t pick up your trash but they can run over your fence and take off. @MayorBowser @DCOfficial @DCPoliceDept

Best USA debut of the 1980s

@JohnLechner1's book reads like a spectacular political thriller as it chronicles the rise & fall of #Prigozhin & #WagnerGroup. It is a must-read to understand nature of relationship Kremlin has with mercenaries. In 🇵🇰, you can order it from @readingspk. @BloomsburyBooks 11/END

Stumbled into a service at St Sargis Armenian Orthodox Church in Damascus

Finally read this and I’m truly bewildered. There is some interesting reporting here, and some original threads to be pulled, but (despite the change to the article’s title) the conclusion is baffling. The liberal world order led to this war! https://t.co/ruN8fnTZc1

#summerreading @EgmontInstitute recommendations by @WilenNina 👉 ‘Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare’ by @JohnLechner1

Thrilled to see my book next to fellow @StPaulsSchoolNH alum, @AnnieJacobsen , one of my favorite writers. If you haven’t read NUCLEAR WAR yet do so now!