Completed Reviews, awaiting publication in an upcoming issue:
Cathy Parc has reviewed John Greening. To the War Poets. Manchester: Carcanet, 2013. Slated for publication shortly.
Reviews currently in progress:
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Thibaud Hesry is reviewing Ron Chernow. Grant, New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
Reviewers are sought for the elements listed below for upcoming issues of Arts of War and Peace. If one of these items interests you, please contact Mark Meigs and/or Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec. Suggestions for other items to review (not listed here) are also welcome for consideration.
HISTORY AND NON-FICTION
Thomas W. Laqueur. The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Eric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato. Wars and Capital, Semiotexte(s), 2018.
Tom Englehardt. A Nation Unmade by War, Haymarket Books, 2018.
LITERATURE
Kate Atkinson. Transcription, Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Claire Bowen and Catherine Hoffman (eds). Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present: Fields of Action, Fields of Vision, Textual Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume 85, Leiden: Brill, Rodopi, 2018.
Peter Herman (ed). Terrorism and Literature, Cambridge: CUP, 2018.
Kate McLoughlin. Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015, Cambridge: CUP, 2018.
Jean Moorcroft-Wilson. Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That 1895-1929, London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018.
Paul O’Prey (ed). Poems of Love and War, Mary Borden, Unicorn, 2016.
ARTWORKS, ART BOOKS, ART HISTORY
Joanna Bourke. War and Art, A Visual History of Modern Conflict, Reaktion Books, 2017.
MUSIC
John Mullen (ed). Popular Song in the First World War: An International Perspective. Ashgate/Routledge, 2018.
FILM
Xavier Beauvois. Les Guardiennes (2017).
Miles Lagoze, Combat Obscura (2019).
EXHIBITS
Exhibit ‘Familles à l’épreuve de la guerre’. Musée de la Grande Guerre, Meaux, June 2-December 2, 2018.
War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics. International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Lincoln-Nebraska, May 25-September 16, 2018. (Previously shown at the American Folk Art Museum, NYC, September 6, 2017-January 7, 2018).
Exhibit ‘War and Peace in Liberia’ including photographs by Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, Bronx Documentary Center, New York City, Oct 26, 2018-Jan 13, 2019.
Online Exhibit ‘Degenerate Art’ at MoMA.
Keswick Museum, Exhibit ‘War and Peace’, January 12 to May 12, 2019.
‘Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975’ Exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum through August 18, 2019.
‘Women War Photographers. From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus’ at Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf. March 8-June 10, 2019.