James Verini is an American magazine journalist and book author. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.[1] He also writes for National Geographic, The New Yorker,[2] Vanity Fair,[3] The Atavist,[4] Foreign Policy,[5] and others.[6] His book They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate was published on September 17, 2019, by W. W. Norton.[7]