The former war correspondent and author of The Perfect Storm on escaping “the tyranny of self-interest,” reporting from Afghanistan, thriving on hardship, and parenting.

The National Book Award winner on dreams deferred, lessons from her Jewish father, her dangerously high threshold for pain, her reporting journey below the Mason-Dixon, and more.

The Atlantic’s singularly intrepid correspondent will take us behind the scenes of his reporting from Saudi Arabia, the West Bank, Iran. Plus his encounters with ISIS and more.