Time Now 2025

I’ve stopped publishing new material on Time Now, but the posts remain available and in fact still attract a fair amount of readers, thank you very much. On the other hand, the Time Now Twitter/X site has recently been shut down by the site administrators for reasons unexplained to me. I hadn’t been posting on it much recently, so don’t really miss it, but I did notice earlier this year that a woman named Katie Miller, whose bio at the time read “proud member of the DOGE team,” had followed me. The name didn’t mean anything to me, but the bio seemed curious, if not ominous, and then in the wake of recent news that I learned that Katie Miller is the wife of Presidential advisor Stephen Miller, and that she has apparently run off with Elon Musk. I don’t think the marital kerfuffle or the connections to the Trump administration have anything to do with my X account being shut down because I hadn’t made any political or topical posts, but who knows?

I’ve migrated social media announcements to Bluesky, but only to post in chronological order links to all my Time Now posts, beginning back in 2012. I’m not sure what I hope to accomplish by doing this, but if a link to a Time Now post of yore might be a welcome addition to your daily scrolling, consider giving me a follow. As I write, no one has yet followed or liked me, so there’s still a chance you can be my #1 fan.

Look for me at “TimeNowEncore” at petermolin.bsky.social

I still keep an eye on new publications and goings-on related to GWOT literary writing, film, and art. In particular, I’ve been tracking publication of academic writing on the subject and reading as much of it as I can get my hands on. I’m flattered to see Time Now mentioned favorably enough in some of the works and suspect/hope that much of the traffic Time Now gets now is the work of grad students and literature professors toiling away on dissertations and books on GWOT writing and art.

So, as a finder’s aid for graduate students and scholars, below’s a list of the full-length scholarly books in which GWOT fiction, poetry, and memoir are central.

1. Kate McLoughin, Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011). Cambridge University Press.

2. Stacey Peebles, Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the Soldier’s Experience in Iraq (2011). Cornell UP.

3. Ikram Masmoudi, War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction (2015). Edinburgh University Press.

4. David A. Buchanan, Going Scapegoat: Post-9/11 War Literature, Language and Culture (2016). McFarland and Company.

5. Owen Gilman, The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq (2018). University Press of Mississippi.

6. Caleb S. Cage, War Narratives: Shaping Beliefs, Blurring Truths in the Middle East (2019). Texas A&M University Press.

7. Joseph Darda, Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War (2019). University of Chicago Press.

8. Roy Scranton, Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature (2019). University of Chicago Press.

9. Mary Douglas Vavrus, Postfeminist War: Women in the Media-Military-Industrial Complex (2019). Rutgers University Press.

10. Purnima Bose, Intervention Narratives: Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror (2020). Rutgers University Press.

11. Myra Mendible, American War Stories: Veteran-Writers and the Politics of Memoir (2021). University of Massachusetts Press.

12. Joshua Pederson, Sin Sick: Moral Injury in War and Literature (2021). Cornell University Press.

13. Ron Ben-Tovim, Poetic Prosthetics: Trauma and Language in Contemporary Veteran Writing (2022). Edinburgh University Press.

14. David E. Eisler, Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present (2022). University of Iowa Press.

15. Travis L. Martin, War & Homecoming: Veteran Identity and the Post-9/11 Generation (2022). University Press of Kentucky.

16. Gregory Brazeal, The Hero and the Victim: Narratives of Criminality in Iraq War Fiction (2024). Lever Press.

Readers with access to a university library might also look-up Angelo Arminio’s unpublished dissertation On the Frontlines of Fiction: Authority and Fictionality in American Veteran Narratives of the War on Terror (2024). I have read it and it’s excellent.

Let me know if I’m missing a title and I’ll add it. Somewhat curiously, stand-alone studies of film and poetry associated with the 9/11 wars seem not yet to exist (though several films are mentioned in passing in the above-named works). I’m also currently compiling a “must-read” list of scholarly and popular press articles that are frequently cited in scholarly books about GWOT art and literature–when I’m done I’ll attach it here.