Fall, 2017 American Library in Paris Fellow – James Verini is a magazine journalist who has reported extensively from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. His reporting on the fall of ISIS in Iraq and the battle for Mosul in the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic, where he is a Contributing Writer, will be adapted into a book for WW Norton. He also writes for the New Yorker, the Atavist Magazine, and others. His new book on ISIS will be published by WW Norton in 2018.