The War Makes Everyone LonelyBy: Graham Barnhart Published: Nov. 2019 (University of Chicago Press) Kill ClassBy:Nomi StonePublished: Feb. 2019 (Tupelo Press) Graham Barnhart’s The War Makes Everyone Lonely and Nomi Stone’s Kill Class both
Wolf Lamb BombBy: Aviya KushnerPublished: June 1, 2021 (Orison Books) Wolf Lamb Bomb, by Aviya Kushner, reminds me of my Jewish friend’s warning to her young daughter: “Remember, no matter where you are, you are
The Latitude of a MercyBy: Stefan LovasikPublished: April 2020 (The New York Quarterly Foundation) With his new book, The Latitude of a Mercy, Stefan Lovasik confronts the nightmarish realities of combat and lingering effects of
Editor’s Note: At the end of this review are three poems from I Will Not Name It Except to Say that Consequence previously published. Toward the end of I Will Not Name It Except to
Battle Dress: PoemsBy Karen Skolfield (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019)Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry At seventeen years old, Karen Skolfield joined the Army. For seven years she served as a journalist.
Teresa Fazio’s memoir, Fidelis, is the story of agency, power struggles, and life lessons learned on a young Marine’s deployment and over the years after she returns. Her experience places her narrative within the scope
When Americans refer to the Viet Nam War, most are talking about the decade of active military combat that killed more than fifty-eight thousand Americans and an estimated 1.4 million Vietnamese civilians, ending with the
Matt Gallagher builds a strange but familiar world in his new novel, Empire City. An incredible mix of speculative genres, he has a science fantasy, alternate history/future, superhero, dystopian view on what would happen to
As a Marine, I grew to appreciate contour lines—those brown lines and spaces on a topographical map–at The Basic School, in Quantico where I struggled to find marked ammo-cans attached to stakes jutting out of
