R.I.P. Michael Herr

Michael Herr has died. He was 76. He wrote the greatest book about war, one of the greatest non-fiction books you might ever read.

I first came across Herr’s name – and extracts of his work – in the extra reading around the very best university class I took; perhaps the only one that stuck. It was a course focussing on The New Journalism of the late 1960…