By Kat Stoeffel 7/03/12 4:45pm

Publishing

Mr. Bowden at Tribeca Film Festival in 2003.

Happy Birthday, America! Mark Bowden Got You a Book About Killing Osama Bin Laden

In a bit of holiday-appropriate news, The Atlantic national correspondent Mark Bowden has sold a book about the death of Osama Bin Laden to Morgan Entrekin at Grove/Atlantic, reports Publishers Marketplace. The book, to be published in October 2012, is “an account of the Bin Laden strike written in Bowden’s signature ‘you are there’ style, going inside the war room as decisions were made and onto the ground as directives were executed.” It’s titled The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden. Read More

By John Koblin 4/02/09 12:17pm

The New York Times Puts Up Its Dukes

There was a time when The New York Times never had to say anything back. If the newspaper caught hell for a story in the popular media, editors at the paper could rely on the time-tested formulation: “The story speaks for itself.” When critics carped about the newspapers’ editorial vision, business plan, or financial position, Read More

By Oliver Haydock 5/30/08 1:18am

Sacks, Lies and Videotape

According to Mark Bowden, the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants was more than a great game; it was a watershed moment that ushered in a new era of professional sports in America. The game, a thrilling overtime victory for the Colts, led by quarterback Johnny Unitas, marked Read More

By Michelle Goldberg 5/22/06 12:00am

The Iran Hostage Crisis: Déjà Vu in the Middle East

If they weren’t real, many of Mark Bowden’s characters would seem like the creations of a lazy Hollywood scriptwriter crafting roles for Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell. He favors men who are gruff and hard-living, honorable but contemptuous of authority. In his fascinating, occasionally frustrating new book, Guests of the Ayatollah, Mr. Bowden describes Col. Read More

By Bob Shacochis 3/08/99 12:00am

Birth of a Combat Classic: A Deadly Gauntlet in Somalia

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War , by Mark Bowden. Atlantic Monthly Press, 386 pages, $24.

Over the course of a single afternoon in 1986, I had the unpleasant opportunity to watch while 14 people were condemned to death, one after another, on the island of Grenada. The guilty had, in the midst Read More