Army of Shadows

ROXANA ROBINSON ON ERICH MARIA REMARQUE’S ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Written in Blood

JACK SHAFER on the war-correspondent game

Battle Lines

BEN SCHWARTZ on the Great War’s graphic image

The Factory Front

KEVIN BOYLE on the Fordist way of making war

A Tragic Honesty

SIMON CRITCHLEY ON GREEK TRAGEDY

Grand Illusions

GERALD HOWARD ON TWO WORLD WAR II CLASSICS

Front Lines

JOSHUA COHEN ON HERODOTUS

Front Lines

JENNIFER PERCY ON MICHAEL HERR’S DISPATCHES

Battle Tested

VANESSA M. GEZARI on how women are faring in combat

The Nowhere War

SUZY HANSEN ON AFGHANISTAN WITHOUT ILLUSIONS

Twists of Hate

WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN ON NEW WAR FICTION

Hard Corps

ELIZABETH SCHAMBELAN ON PTSD

Command and Control

CHRIS BRAY on William Tecumseh Sherman’s burning legacy

Antiwar Machine

SUSIE LINFIELD on the lessons we can learn from the anti–Vietnam War movement

Game of Drones

SAM LIPSYTE ON THE FUTURE OF DRONE FICTION

Blood on the Tracts

SAÏD SAYRAFIEZADEH ON COMMUNIST TRACTS

CHRISTOPHER LYON on recent art books

MELANIE REHAK on great meals from literature

LAURA KIPNIS on Thomas Beller’s quest for the J. D. Salinger story

CHOIRE SICHA on John Waters’s wayward muse

HEATHER HAVRILESKY on the memoirs of the stars

ALBERT MOBILIO: Ray Johnson’s The Paper Snake, and Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954–1994

RHETT MILLER: Liel Leibovitz’s A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen

LAUREN O’NEILL-BUTLER: Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988

DAVID O’NEILL: Richard Misrach and Kate Orff’s Petrochemical America

SHELLEY RICE: Hannah Höch

MELISSA ANDERSON: James Harvey’s Watching Them Be: Star Presence on the Screen from Garbo to Balthazar

ALBERT MOBILIO: Saul Leiter: Early Black and White

WAYNE KOESTENBAUM: Hervé Guibert’s The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976–1991 and Ghost Image

ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG: Ari L. Goldman’s The Late Starters Orchestra

ALLEN BARRA: Richard Hoffer’s Bouts of Mania: Ali, Frazier, and Foreman—and an America on the Ropes

NATASHA VARGAS-COOPER: Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me

JERRY STAHL: Ruben Castaneda’s S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.

JIM NEWELL: Kenneth P. Vogel’s Big Money: 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp—on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics and Daniel Schulman’s Sons of Wichita: H ow the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty

STEVEN G. KELLMAN: Peter Finn and Petra Couvée’s The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

JIM SLEEPER: William Deresiewicz’s Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

FIONA MAAZEL: Zachary Lazar’s I Pity the Poor Immigrant

ERIC BANKS: Muriel Spark’s The Informed Air: Essays and Territorial Rights, and Robert E. Hosmer Jr.’s Hidden Possibilities: Essays in Honor of Muriel Spark

HILLARY CHUTE: Ariel Schrag’s Adam

YASMINE EL RASHIDI: Sonallah Ibrahim’s Stealth

ADAM THIRLWELL: The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition

SASHA FRERE-JONES: Joshua Ferris’s To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

LINDSAY ZOLADZ: Stacey D’Erasmo’s Wonderland

GENE SEYMOUR: Jeffery Renard Allen’s Song of the Shank

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Emily Gould’s Friendship

EILEEN MYLES: Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre