Table of Contents
Volume 29, 2017
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
IN MEMORIAM
SPECIAL FEATURE
Sara Nović / The 11th Annual David L. Jannetta Distinguished Lecture in War, Literature & the Arts
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Kathleen Harrington / Sara Nović: Girl at War
MEMOIR
Oliver Ferguson / My World War
Steve Sobel / LEBANON: A Bullet in a Magazine
J. Malcom Garcia / A Promise to Keep
Alicia Defonzo / France in June
Steven Liparulo / Monday Night Football: Everybody Wants to Rule the World (1985)
FICTION
MaryEllen Beveridge / Out of Season
Jake Wolff / Please Explain Me
Richard Johnston / Dry Sockets
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Katherine Witt / Imagining War: Ilyse Kusnetz’s Small Hours
ARTWORK
Brandon Lingle / A Conversation with Jack Beeler
INTERVIEW
Bunkong Tuon / A Conversation with Bao Ninh
Kelly Griffith / A Conversation with Will Bardenwerper
Thomas G. McGuire / A Conversation with H.C. Palmer
POETRY
Bruce Lader / A Tough Day for the Generals
Nancy Knowles / Sixth-Grade Homework
Evalyn Lee / Lighthouse Keeper’s Cottage
Gerry McFarland / Gunner Thinks About Everything At Once
Gisella Faggi / Mari Miditirràniu
Timothy Pilgrim / War memorial
Kyle Adamson / The Standard Operating Procedure for Wounded Enemy Combatants
Brandon Marlon / Aleppo
Josh A. Brewer / The Bakeries of Warsaw
John Barr / Death of a Species
Henry Crawford / Remembering 100 Years of the First World War
Katya Lavine / Death, They Said
Kathleen O’Neil / Red
John Sibley Williams / Tattoos Fade
Kathryn Kirkpatrick / Vietnam, Again
Lyn Lifshin / I Am Old, I Am Sick, I Do Not Want To Die In Auschwitz
George Longenecker / Villanelle for Fallen Apples
Jessica Housand-Weaver / Three Poems
Kate O’Neill / Not a Story
mick kennedy / The Last Man Standing (Christmas Truce 1914)
William Childress / Once in the Land of the Morning Calm
Heidi Wallis / Gaza
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Brian Lance / Warplay
Howard Skrill / HMS Jersey: Absences and Memory from the Battlefields of Brooklyn
Roberto Loiederman / Henry’s Holocaust
PERSONAL ESSAY
Paula Brown / Photograph, Solomon Islands, 1944
CRITICAL ESSAY
Gary Grieve-Carlson / Telling the Truth about History: Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods
Grace Howard / A Lesser Imitation (?): How Redeployment Recalls, Expands, and Departs from The Things They Carried
Lisa Ferguson / Killing Them with Kindness: Tim O’Brien’s Rehabilitation of the Violent Vietnam Soldier
Peter Molin / Frederick Busch and Annie Proulx: Forebears of Contemporary War Fiction
Grace E. Miller / "Boom / [S]he is not": Drone Wars and the Vanishing Pilot
COMMENTARY
Claudia Hauer / Philip D. Beidler, Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination
Gary Mills / Vietnam Memoir as Satire
FILM