Fractured Lands

In Fractured Lands, Scott Anderson offers a lucid, powerful, and very human account of the transformation of the Arab world in the years following the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Anderson tells the stories of six individuals, from Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan, using eyewitness accounts to navigate the series of events that have led to the rise of ISIS, and precipitated the global refugee crisis. The result is an exceptional piece of long-form journalism, originally published to take up the entirety of New York Times Magazine, and accompanied by images from Anderson's long-time collaborator, the photographer Paolo Pellegrin, who has spent two decades capturing life in the Middle East on film . In the words of Anderson's editor at the New York Times: 'The geography of this catastrophe is broad and its causes are many, but its consequences - war and uncertainty throughout the world - are familiar to us all. Scott Anderson's story gives the reader a visceral sense of how it all unfolded ...What follows is one of the most clear-eyed, powerful and human explanations of what has gone wrong in this region that you will ever read.' - Jake Silverstein, Editor In Chief of the New York Times