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**James Verini** is an American magazine journalist and book author. He is a contributing writer at *[The New York Times Magazine](/source/The_New_York_Times_Magazine).*[1] He also writes for *[National Geographic](/source/National_Geographic)*, *[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)*,[2] *Vanity Fair*,[3] *The Atavist*,[4] *Foreign Policy*,[5] and others.[6] His book *They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate* was published on September 17, 2019, by [W. W. Norton](/source/W._W._Norton).[7]

## Career

In 2015, he received a [National Magazine Award](/source/National_Magazine_Awards) for feature writing for "Love and Ruin," an article in *The Atavist* about the history of American intervention in Afghanistan.[8] He won a 2015 [George Polk Award](/source/George_Polk_Awards) for "Should the United Nations Wage War to Keep Peace?", about the civil war in Democratic Republic of Congo, in *National Geographic*.[9]

## Bibliography

- Verini, James (April 20, 2015). ["Escape or die"](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/20/escape-or-die). *The New Yorker*. Vol. 91, no. 9. pp. 66–75.[10]
- Verini, James (2019). *They will have to die now : Mosul and the fall of the Caliphate*. W.W. Norton. [11]
- Verini, James & Jao, Jonathan (2026). *The theater: courage and survival in the defining atrocity of the Ukraine War*. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-6680-6220-3. [12]

## References

1. ["The New York Times Magazine - Masthead"](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/magazine/masthead.html,%20https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/magazine/masthead.html). *The New York Times*. 2011-03-01. [ISSN 0362-4331](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 2019-05-26.

1. ["James Verini's New Yorker archive"](http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/james-verini). *The New Yorker*. Retrieved 2016-04-13.

1. ["James Verini's Vanity Fair archive"](https://www.vanityfair.com/contributor/james-verini). *Vanity Fair*. Retrieved 2018-08-14.

1. ["The Atavist"](https://magazine.atavist.com/the-doctor). *The Atavist*. 14 September 2015. Retrieved 2018-08-14.

1. ["James Verini's Foreign Policy archive"](https://foreignpolicy.com/author/james-verini/). *Foreign Policy*. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 2016-04-13.

1. ["James Verini on Longform"](https://longform.org/archive/writers/james-verini). *[Longform](/source/Longform.org)*. Retrieved 2016-04-13.

1. Verini, James (2019). *They Will Have to Die Now | W. W. Norton & Company*. National Geographic Books. ISBN 978-0393652475.

1. ["National Magazine Awards 2015 Winners Announced | ASME"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170917032444/http://www.magazine.org/industry-news/press-releases/asme-press-releases/asme/national-magazine-awards-2015-winners). *www.magazine.org*. Archived from [the original](http://www.magazine.org/industry-news/press-releases/asme-press-releases/asme/national-magazine-awards-2015-winners) on 2017-09-17. Retrieved 2016-04-13.

1. Hartocollis, Anemona (2015-02-15). ["Polk Awards in Journalism Are Announced, Including Three for The Times"](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/nyregion/fourteen-george-polk-awards-in-journalism-are-given-including-three-to-the-times.html). *The New York Times*. [ISSN 0362-4331](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 2016-04-13.

1. Title in the online table of contents is "We’ve got to escape, or we die".

1. Lawler, Dave (2019-09-24). ["Interview: Witnessing the fall of the Islamic State"](https://www.axios.com/2019/09/24/defeat-of-isis-battle-of-mosul-iraq-james-verini). *Axios*. Retrieved 2026-05-31.

1. Alexander, Caroline (2026-05-18). ["‘They Just Wanted to Kill Us’: a Harrowing Account From Ukraine"](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/books/review/the-theater-james-verini.html). *The New York Times*. [ISSN 0362-4331](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 2026-05-31.

## External links

- [Official website](https://jamesverini.com/)

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