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
―with Uche Ezenwa-Ohaeto Something sits on my heart like night sits on day:A verdant lush too heavy to pass through my throat.In one night, rivers redden where bone-rubble, limbs float.Here, mother is a name for
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
Territorios by Lisa Colorado Original Text: Naturaleza común; relatos de no ficción de excombatientes para la reconciliación [Common Nature: Non-fiction Stories for Reconciliation by Ex-combatants] Ministry of Culture, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, and Center for
Brotherhood (25:00 min)Written and Directed by Meryam JoobeurProduced by Habib Attia, Sara Ben Hassen, Maria Garcia Turgeon, Meryam Joobeur An unintended consequence of the Arab Spring uprisings (2010-2013) was the flight of young men and
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
Now that you have decided to stayaway, I have given up finding the quietgestures that lie behind us. What matterscannot just be found in corners of what wasonce your home. I have muted your imprintin
We weren’t expecting it to rain, not when you can still see blue sky. It comes in one moment—an eye blink—a sip of coffee. Like war. It will be over in a minute, says the
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 night before sailing for America with Comte de Rochambeau’s naval fleet, Antoine Cocq cracked one kneepan while pleading to convince Marie Barbe to marry him. The force of his kneel didn’t split the bone,
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
Stretchy ice cream, now this is a first. My mother-in-law, a powerful but warm matriarch, who has somehow managed to raise eight kids (nine if you count me) to meet any traditional measure of success,
