It seems Kevin Powers’ acclaimed novel The Yellow Birds has found even more fans in Hollywood, with Benedict Cumberbatch set to star in the film adaptation helmed by director David Lowery. “I never had any interest in making a war film until Jeff and Evan (Story Mining pictures) brought me the novel by Kevin Powers,” said Lowery. “And perhaps I still don’t, because... Read more

An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, The Yellow Birds is already being hailed as a modern classic. “The war tried to kill us in the spring,” begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launc... Read more