by Robert Edwards | Jun 21, 2022 | Reviews
PresidentDirected by: Camilla NielssonRelease Date: 2021 How bad was life in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe, the brutal kleptocrat who held power in that sorrowful nation for almost forty years? This bad: When the British mercenary Simon Mann tried to break out of...
by Jacquelyn Pope | Jun 7, 2022 | Reviews
No SignPeter BalakianUniversity of Chicago Press, 2022 In his ninth collection, Pulitzer-prize winning poet Peter Balakian grapples with the anxiety and loss endemic to our time. While the poems respond to recent events, they should not necessarily be viewed as...
by Tom Sleigh | May 24, 2022 | Reviews
Editor’s Note: It was just over forty years ago that the poet Christopher Logue published War Music, his “account” of The Iliad, and ten years ago that Alice Oswald published the book-length poem, Memorial, her engagement with the epic. In honor of these...
by Paul Watkins | May 7, 2022 | Reviews
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest HourBy: James D. Hornfischer, Doug Murray, and Steven Sanders (graphic nonfiction)Published: 2021 (Dead Reckoning) CDR. Amos Hathaway of the Heerman has become...
by Drew Swinger | Apr 21, 2022 | Reviews
Winthropos By: George KalogerisPublished: LSU Press (2021) On a small and hilly peninsula of Massachusetts looking out onto the Atlantic and in across Boston Harbor, Winthrop, as it has been known since 1852, is today a commuter suburb of just under 20,000 people, a...
by Deb Carr | Apr 11, 2022 | Reviews
Space ForceCreated by Steve Carell and Jeff DanielsRelease Date (Streaming): May, 2020 (Netflix) Space Force is an outer-space/military comedy that debuted in 2020 on Netflix (the second season was just released this February). It depicts the exploits of four-star Air...
by Caleb Nelson | Mar 21, 2022 | Reviews
The High Alive: An Epic Hoodoo DiptychBy: Carlos SirahPublished: The 3rd Thing (2020) The book arrives neatly wrapped in white tissue paper, tied up in twine with a bow. This theatrical presentation plays with pretense and anticipation. Unwrapping it, the book smells...
by Ellen Kaufman | Mar 7, 2022 | Reviews
Black Butterflies over BaghdadBy: David Allen SullivanPublished: Oct. 2021 (The Word Works) Building on his earlier poetry collection about U.S. soldiers who served in Iraq (Every Seed of the Pomegranate, 2012) David Allen Sullivan, poet-laureate of Santa Cruz,...
by Heidi Hart | Feb 21, 2022 | Reviews
2034: A Novel of the Next World WarBy: Elliot Ackerman and James StavridisPublished: March 2021 (Penguin Press) In a culture saturated with eco-dystopian future fantasies, a novel about the next world war on a still mostly functioning planet is as startling as it is...
by Peter Brown | Jan 20, 2022 | Reviews
Charité at WarDirected by Anno SaulRelease Date (Streaming): June, 2019 (Netflix) Charité at War, a Netflix series directed by Anno Saul, recounts the period before and during the last major battle of WWII, the Battle of Berlin, as lived by the medical personnel at...
