Literature and the war

First-Person Shooters

By Sam Sacks,

Discussed in this essay: A Big Enough Lie, by Eric Bennett. Triquarterly. 296 pages. $17.95. The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers. Back Bay Books. 256 pages. $14.99. Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the…

The Seductive Catastrophe

By Frederic Morton,

Can foul weather 35,000 feet in the air bear clues to a calamity below — to the great killing that started almost a century earlier? I expected no such thing…

The western cannon

By Jason Armagost,

R & D

By Lewis H. Lapham,

Of arms and the woman

By Marge Piercy,

Barely suppressed screams

By C.D.B.(Courtland Dixon Barnes) Bryan,

My War

By Paul Fussell,

Over the past few years I find I’ve written a great deal about war, which is odd because I’m supposed to be a professor of English literature. And I find…

Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the epic tradition

By Michael Glenny,

The case of the fraudulent dust jacket

By Joachim Remak,

Sanity and society . . . novelists on the nature of man . . . the Supreme Court . . . war stories

By Paul Murphy Pickrel,

War and the poets

Edited by Oscar Williams,

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