Lyle Jeremy RubinPain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming

Mr. Rubin's debut book, "Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming" deconstructs stereotype, masculinity, sexuality, and machismo at the highest physical and psychic levels – the project of imperialism, and the impacts that project has on the individuals conscripted to carry it out.As both a memoir and a thesis, "Pain..." lays bare the local and global consequences of empire, endless war, and the radical dehumanization of the soldiers on either side of the battlefield.