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Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

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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 force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

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