Table of Contents
Volume 26, 2014
From the Editor’s Desk
Donald Anderson / You Can’t Come Home Again: Phil Klay’s Redeployment
Special Feature
Roxana Robinson / The Warrior and the Writer
Editor’s Choice
Kathleen Harrington/ Sparta: a conversation with Roxana Robinson
Author Spotlight
Matthew Hefti / The Long Walk: a conversation with Brian Castner
Jesse Goolsby / The Book of Duels: a conversation with Michael Garriga
Memoir
Wayne Karlin / Excerpts from the Memoir of Trần Văn Thủy
John Balaban / Saying Goodbye to General Giap
David A. Willson / Tet, Seattle, February 1968
Jason Arment / A Bridge to Nowhere
Deborah DeFrank / The Jacket
Gloria Dyc / The Ceremony
Nolan Peterson / Scars
Marc Levy / Klinic in Zurichberg
Robert Joe Stout / The War in Words
Michael Selzer / A Jew Goes to Berlin
Matthew Komatsu / 31 North 64 East
Lisa M. Sita / At the Fosse Ardeatine
Fiction
Andrew Slater / The Cold
Elliot Ackerman / Hometown Heroes
Gerard J. Carisio / Resolved
Steven McGregor / By the Aqueduct
Dennis Kennedy / Underway Replenishment
Frank Scozzari / Too Old for War
J. Alan Montrose / Orders
J. Malcolm Garcia / What Do You Do?
Artwork
Giuseppe Pellicano / Left. Left. Left, Right, Left
Ed Drew / Afghanistan, Combat Zone Tintype
Poetry
Michael Casey / deploy deploy
Michael Shorb / Gods of War
Joseph Bathanti / Two Poems
William Mullen / Eight Turners
Kerry Rawlinson / In Flanders’ Shadow (plus artwork, original photos by Nathan Jones)
Amanda Nowakowski / The War
Brandon Courtney / Malaria Tent, Pleiku, 1964
Kya Reaves / A Woman at War
Adrie Kusserow / Two Poems
Stephen Gibson / WWII
Rebecca Morgan Frank / The Last Time I Saw Manila
Brad Kavo / The Cliffs of Colleville-sur-Mer
E.M. Schorb / The Bosian Cherry
Kevin Boyle / Unruh
John Guzlowski / Two Poems
Brian Pals / Something about an eyelash
Bonnie Maurer / The Poem Stands on its Head by the Window
Tim Lynch / Living in the Killing Fields: In the Tank to Phnom Penh
Charlie Bondhus / Two Poems
donnarkevic / Burying the War Dead
Benjamin Goluboff / The Fairy Fleet at Fredericksburg
Jesse Morales / Map of Leaving
Majda Gama / Two Poems
William Varner / Three Poems
Matthew Boulay / Two Poems
Herbert Englehardt / Five Poems
Marilyn Johnston / Final Flight
Adam Graaf / Blackwater Bridge
Creative Nonfiction
Nicholas Mercurio / Lucky
Lyra Hilliard / When I Have Your Wounded
Matthew James Babcock / My Nazi Dagger
Thomas Simko / The Long Goodbye
Paul Van Dyke / A Sliver of Blue
Personal Essay
Michael Caligaris / Shoebox
Trish Gwynn / Mine
Micah Fields / Zeh Mutaasif Yum
J. Scott Smith / Poly Trauma
Critical Essay
Candice L. Pipes / The Impossibility of Home
Thomas Vargish / Postmodern Authority
Travis L. Martin / War, Witness, Modernisn and David Jones’s Subversive Voice
John Savoie / Sniping, Psalming, Saving: American Soldier, Biblical Warrior, and the Mysteries of Salvation in Saving Private Ryan
Ian A. Isherwood / “To fly is more fascinating than to read about flying”: British R.F.C. Memoirs of the First World War, 1918-1939
Jonathan Snyder / The “Make-Believe” War: Necessary Fictionalizing in Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War
Alison M. Johnson / Sam Hughes as a Second Generation Trauma Victim in Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country
Christopher Barker / Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon and the Fear of Death in War
Pritha Kundu / The Anglo-Saxon War-Culture and The Lord of the Rings: Legacy and Reappraisal
Ben Townsend / On the Front Lines of an Empire: The Rhetoric of Poetry of the First World War
Barbara Kowalczuk / My Lai’s “Fucking Flies!”: The Stigmata of Trauma in Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods
Pinaki Roy / Sidney Keyes: The War Poet “Who Groped for Death”
Sara Deutch Schotland / Soldiers of Conscience: The Conscientious Objector as (Anti) War Hero
Kevin Foster / Deploying the Dead: Combat Photography, Death and the Second World War in the USA and the Soviet Union
Elizabeth Richards-Rivenbark / The End of Innocence: The Effects of the Civil War on Children in the Paintings of Eastman Johnson
Commentary
David Buchanan / They Call it the Hajji Mall
Julien Mathonnière / War tales that blur the lines but extol the truth
Levi Bollinger / A Broader Scope
Katherine Plichta / The Most Vital Phenomena
Kristin G. Kelly / “This Is a Language Made of Blood”: Speaking of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Strip Malls