Nick McDonell

Nick performed on stage at Joe’s Pub in our October 24, 2023 edition of Seriously Entertaining, speaking on the evening’s theme, “What Goes Around.”​​

Nick McDonell is the author of the novels Twelve, The Third Brother, An Expensive Education, and The Council of Animals, as well as a work of political theory, The Civilization of Perpetual Movement, and four books of reportage on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including The Bodies in Person. He has contributed reporting and essays to Harper’s Magazine, London Review of Books, Libération, The Paris Review, newyorker.com, and TIME, among other publications. His work has been published in twenty-three countries and appeared on best-seller lists around the world.

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