We’re pleased to have Philip Gourevitch this week at the TPMCafe Book Club. Gourevitch, the editor of The Paris Review, has collaborated with filmmaker Errol Morris on Standard Operating Procedure, a detailed look at Abu Ghraib prison.
In his first post today, Gourevitch explores his reasons for doing the book, not least of which is that we are all implicated in Abu Ghraib: “The crimes of Abu Ghraib, and their cover up, were committed in the name of our security and our freedom – and the crimes and cover up left us all in greater danger.”
Joining Gourevitch will be the poet and essayist Mary Karr, author Rory Stewart, Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic Monthly, E.J. Graff, senior correspondent at The American Prospect, and novelist Robert Stone.
