Anthony Swofford's "Jarhead" is one of those books; you imagine him half-wishing, as he gets to the end of the book, that he could reach back and start erasing it from the beginning. Swofford was ...

As “Jarhead” (2003), his harrowing account of serving with the Marines during the first gulf war, so eloquently attests, Swofford can write like he drives: fast and furious and profane ...

With a smash, best-selling memoir-turned-movie under his standard-issue belt, "Jarhead" author Anthony Swofford boasts a ready-made army of fans awaiting the release of his next book. But will ...

In Anthony Swofford's "Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles" (Scribner), that symbol is human waste. Swofford's book, a searing grunt's-eye view of life in the U.S ...

At one point in former Marine sniper and “Jarhead” author Anthony Swofford ... Swofford manifest themselves in myriad ways, and the book is laid out in an intentionally disjointed manner ...