Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...
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In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.
Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.
As a global community of artists, we can learn to be more sensitive to the needs of Indigenous artists and communities, but it means adopting a willingness to move beyond escapism towards an aware and ...
With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...
One of his favorite essays shares the story of his great-great ... He also began to write poetry. “As I’ve done more of each, it’s kind of developed my interest,” said Bowers, the author ...
A drunken soldier, an errant artillery shell ... the city bore a history of deep delight for the cerebral. There are few better examples than the tale of Jaffna's library. When it was established in ...
Captain Kendra Curtice was his executive officer on Fort Moore. She says they helped each other, sharing about struggles and then poetry, leading her to get help too. “I feel like I’m getting better.
By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include ... epigraph and the elusive uncited allusion. Here’s an example, in a poem called “Nicholson Baker & I,” from ...
VFW Post 3679 honored student essay winners and teachers at an awards breakfast, recognizing excellence in the Patriot’s Pen and Voice of Democracy contests. Some winners will compete at state ...
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