War and Imagination

Perspectives from the Hudson Review
Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in War and Imagination offer an opportunity to challenge representations of well-known conflicts with a wide variety of pieces from the frontlines and beyond.
Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives.

Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in War and Imagination offer an opportunity to challenge representations of well-known conflicts with a wide variety of pieces from the frontlines and beyond, such as letters from German soldiers at the siege of Stalingrad, a Holocaust memoir by physicist Abraham Pais, a previously unpublished story by Tennessee Williams, a haunting tale of the Spanish Civil War, and a fresh translation of the final act of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The selections chosen from this anthology make real the unimaginable horrors of survival during wartime while showcasing unique interpretations that allow readers to ponder the mystery from another point of view.

War and Imagination includes selections from Tennessee Williams, Louis Simpson, Nina Bogin, Leo Tolstoy, Lara Prescott, Maxine Kumin, Benjamin Fondane, Maria Terrone, Brooke Allen, and more.

Contributor: Ronald Koury (Edited by), Larissa Volokhonsky (Contributions by), Wendell Berry (Contributions by), Julián Ríos (Contributions by), Nick Caistor (Contributions by), Asako Serizawa (Contributions by), Luke Mogelson (Contributions by), Lara Prescott (Contributions by), Cary Holladay (Contributions by), Anne Stevenson (Contributions by), Daniel Hoffman (Contributions by), John Ridland (Contributions by), Ronald Koury (Preface by), Maria Terrone (Contributions by), Nina Bogin (Contributions by), Frederick Morgan (Contributions by), Franz Schneider (Contributions by), Maxine Kumin (Contributions by), Benjamin Fondane (Contributions by), John Balaban (Contributions by), Donka Farkas (Contributions by), Charles Gullans (Contributions by), Joseph Bennett (Contributions by), Tennessee Williams (Contributions by), Leo Tolstoy (Contributions by), John Finlay (Contributions by), Marilyn Nelson (Contributions by), Brooke Allen (Contributions by), Abraham Pais (Contributions by), Louis Simpson (Contributions by), Richard Pevear (Contributions by)

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