Literature and the war Archives

Literature and the war

PEN vs. Sword

by Ayad Akhtar, Andrey Kurkov, Patrice Nganang, Salman Rushdie, Yiyun Li,

From remarks delivered at the PEN America Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers, which was held in May at the United Nations. ayad akhtar: The gravity of this moment is…

First-Person Shooters

by Sam Sacks,

What’s missing in contemporary war fiction

The Seductive Catastrophe

by Frederic Morton,

Why the world went to war in 1914

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,

How I got irony in the infantry

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,