war

What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

Aminatta Forna on Over Two Decades of Literary Excavation of Sierra Leone’s Civil War

 
By Aminatta Forna  January 29, 2024
Feminism

Vigilantes and Vengeance: On the Women Who Fight Back

By Elizabeth Flock  January 9, 2024
Poetry

“Dead Cats Continue to Meow.” A Poem by Nasser Rabah

By Nasser Rabah  December 22, 2023
The Hub

Dozens of indie booksellers have signed an open letter in support of Palestine.

By Jonny Diamond  December 11, 2023
The Hub

Reports suggest Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha has been kidnapped by Israeli forces.

By Jonny Diamond  November 20, 2023
Palestinian Literature

On Literary Empathy and the Performative Reading of Palestinian Authors

By Etaf Rum  November 16, 2023
Writing Process

Literature’s Porous Borders: Where Fiction Ends and Reality Begins

By Salar Abdoh  November 7, 2023
Palestine

A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation

By Fady Joudah  November 1, 2023
Poetry

“Life Line to Gaza”: A Poem by Ru Freeman

By Ru Freeman  October 26, 2023
The Hub

What to read right now on Gaza and the Hamas-Israel war.

By Literary Hub  October 18, 2023
Militarism

Agency, Power, and the Armed Forces: On the Shifting Role of Women at War

By Cynthia Enloe  September 22, 2023
Baillie Gifford Prize

Rape As a Weapon: A Tragedy Both Ancient and Modern

By Christina Lamb  August 25, 2023
The Hub

A new poll has found that we read to ~escape~ … to World War II.

By Janet Manley  July 31, 2023
Writing About War

Mirinae Lee on Learning How to Write About War

By Mirinae Lee  June 16, 2023
World War I

Revisiting the Mental Health Fallout from the Unprecedented Horror of the First World War

By Charles Glass  June 14, 2023
Keen On

Elliot Ackerman imagines an America of President Al Gore in Which There is Technology That Can Resurrect Dead People

By Keen On  June 2, 2023
Technology

Andrew Krivak on War, Language, Memory, and Why ChatGPT Will Never Understand Beauty

By Keen On  June 2, 2023
Journalism

On the Enduring Power and Relevance of America’s Most Famous WWII Correspondent

By David Chrisinger  May 30, 2023
Ukraine

Beyond Metaphor: Inside the First Month of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

By Serhiy Zhadan, Reilly Costigan‑Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler  May 17, 2023
Keen On

Anjan Sundaram on the Devastating Personal Costs of Being a War Correspondent in Africa

By Keen On  April 12, 2023
Keen On

Ralph White on His Wartime Efforts to Rescue Vietnamese Civilians

By Keen On  April 5, 2023
Climate Change

Writing History Showed Me a New Way to View Climate Change

By Christopher de Bellaigue  April 3, 2023
Keen On

Jeffrey E. Stern on a Many Layered Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War

By Keen On  March 27, 2023
The Middle East

A Legacy of Brutality and Corruption: Life in the New Iraq

By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad  March 14, 2023
2023 Oscars

Oscars Countdown: What to Read (and Watch) After All Quiet on the Western Front

By Literary Hub  March 9, 2023
What to Watch

Of War and Capitalism: The Debate About All Quiet on the Western Front Goes All the Way Back to the Book

By Bruce Krajewski  March 2, 2023
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