People in Iceland participate in the annual tradition of Jólabókaflód, which translates into Christmas book flood or Yule ...

"The Things They Carried" is a groundbreaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the power of storytelling. O'Brien uses plenty of metaphors to weave together a profound study of men at ...

The USA TODAY Network called on journalists across the country — including at The Journal News/lohud — to head south to assist overwhelmed staffers.

He assigned students the book “They Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. “It’s a gorgeous book that allows them an insight into veterans and then they take that information and apply it ...

By organizing chaotic experiences, stories allow people to cope with and make sense of tumultuous events. In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam War soldiers use storytelling to manage ...

Armed conflict has been a tragic fact of human existence for the duration of our recorded history, most likely long before that.

Our community impact was 10,000 participants. 2015 – The Things They Carried In our second year, we read, Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. More than 7,000 people attended 10 main events and took ...

Listen to An Interview About Veterans To better understand the difficulties that veterans today face, your students can listen to an NPR interview with author Tim O’Brien, conducted 20 years after the ...