Volume 27
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
Donald Anderson / War Chatter
SPECIAL FEATURE
Brian Turner / The 9th Annual
David L. Jannetta Distinguished
Lecture in War, Literature & the
Arts
EDITOR'S CHOICE
No Man's War: a conversation
with Angela Ricketts
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Thomas G. McGuire / A Conversation with Brian Turner
Sean Purio / Patrick Hicks's The Commandant of Lubizec
Thomas G. McGuire / A Conversation with Bryan Doerries
Brandon Lingle / A Conversation with Jesse Goolsby
ARTWORK
Brandon Lingle / The Art of Richard Johnson
POETRY
Vincent Casaregola / Contrails
Barbara Persnell / How to Cuss in French
David K. Vaughan / Dak To II
Donald Welch / Two Poems
Dan O' Brien / Three Poems
Levi Bollinger / Sestina for Finn
A. M. Gwynn / Blood and Water
H. C. Palmer / Resurrection (A Fable)
Dale Ritterbusch / Four Poems
Phillip Pitts / No God for Dog
Kassandra Montag / Two Poems
Jimmy Pappas / Two Poems
Greg McBride / Research Dermatologist and I, the Army Photographer
Kim Malinowski / Great Uncle
Michael H. Levin / Bougainville
Christopher Locke / Ecotours, Ltd.
Adam Graaf / Two Poems
D. A. Gray / Negative Space
William Hudson / After Nam
Anne Hohenstein / When They Found You
Lisa Gray Fisher / The Double
P. H. Crosby / French’s Field II
Taylor Collier / Mutilations: Custer
Amber Adams / Medevac
Aileen Bassis / Vukovar Walls
Nancy Boutilier / Sweeping
D. Brian Anderson / Two Poems
David Keplinger / Three Poems
Patrick Gordon / Full Bird in Flight
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​​​​​​​​​​​​MEMOIR
Malinda Fillingim / Wars, Near and Far
Adina Siperman / Army Wife
Julie Wittes Schlack / Signs
Alyssa Martino / Free Falling Soldier
Samuel F. Lanckton / Everyone Breaks
Larry Schreiber / Nong Chan Camp, 1980 (Rice in her Mouth)
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Thomas D. Praino / The Cave of Clay Urns
Frank Light / Old School New School
Paul Crenshaw / The Hornet Among Us
Juliet Barney / In Observance
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PERSONAL ESSAY
J. F. Newman / What a Hammer Can Do
Brooke N. King / Dogtags
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CRITICAL ESSAY
Kathy Phillips / Mass Nakedness in the Imaginary of the Nazis
Shane Emplaincourt / Joyeux Noёl and Remembering the Christmas Truce of 1914
Martin T. Buinicki and David M. Owens / The Last Campaign of John Brown’s Body:
West Point and America’s Forgotten Civil War Epic
Matthew Hill / Michael Casey’s Obscenities: A Critique of Workaday Brutality
Jennifer Haytock / Women’s/War Stories: The Female Gothic and Women’s War
Trauma in Helen Benedict’s Sand Queen
Joyce Wexler / The New Heroism
Vivian Zenari / Henry James’s Civil War Stories: The Homefront Experience and War Romance
Robert Magella / Rupert Brooke and Isaac Rosenberg: Myth, Modernity, and the Destabilization
of Georgian War Poetry
Sarah Montin / “Not Flowers for Poets’ tearful foolings”: First World War Poetry, flowers and
the Pastoral Failure
Peter C. Molin / A “Phrase Too Cute to Do Our Ugliness Justice”: Portraying
“Wounded Warriors” in Contemporary War Fiction
Dean Kritikos / The Home Front Waste Land: Williams, Zukofsky, and Epistemology after Eliot
Nina H. B. Jørgensen / Responding to the Effect of the Holocaust in the Present:
A Comparison of Narrative Strategies in Time’s Arrow, A Blessing on the Moon, and The Reader
David Kramer / The Spanish-American War as a Bourgeois Testing Ground:
Richard Harding Davis, Frank Norris and Stephen Crane
Hilary Lithgow / “It’s All Good”: Forms of Belief and the Limits of Irony
in David Finkel’s The Good Soldiers
Maria Geiger / No Trench Required: Validating the Voices of Female Poets of WWI
Ty Hawkins / Bobbie Ann Mason’s The Girl in the Blue Beret: Aesthetic Experimentation,
Evil, and American Cultural Memory of “The Good War”
Ross Griffin / History with a Human Face: Creative Nonfiction and the Oral Histories of the Vietnam War
Carlos Villar Flor / Happy Warriors in Arms: Aspects of military life in Evelyn Waugh’s
Put Out More Flags and Sword of Honour
Laura Dunbar / “I can soljer with any man”: The Post 9-11 Renaissance of James Jones
Rance D. Denton / “Most Distant and Most Dear”: Clausewitzian Conflicts in Kipling’s
Barrack-Room Ballads
Daniel M. Clayton / Whitewashing WWII Sexual Memory
Ann Elias / Obliteration: the camouflaged body, Australia, and photography in modern war
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​COMMENTARY
Katey Schultz / On Patriotism & the Language of GWOT
Caleb S. Cage / Heroes and Victims
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