Tighe, Joseph A. 2004. in Critical Survey, 16 (3): 48-61. A study of Merleau-Ponty89’s phenomenology in his novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front as a realistic and antiwar portrayal of the horrors of conflict, that…
Sontag, Susan. 1965. in Commentary Magazine. Sontag carries out a criticism on audience response to 1950’s science fiction films seemingly drawing from the apocalyptic experiences in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She defends…
Semmler, Clement. 1970. The Australian Quarterly 42, no. 4: 74-82. This journal article examines the life of writer Aldous Huxley, from his youth to his political opinions as a young man to his fascination with…
Monk, Craig. 1995. American Studies International 33, no. 2: 60-70. Monk discusses war and peace in two of the interwar novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who fought in World War I and lived and travelled throughout Europe…
Higgins, David M. 2013. Science Fiction Studies 40, no. 2: 228-245. In this introduction to a literary journal, David Higgins analyzes the political undertones in novels such as Frank Herbert’s Dune and Arthur C.…
Bahoora, Haytham. 2015. The Arab Studies Journal 23, no. 1: 184-208. Bahoora presents a discussion of three Iraqi novels (Luay Hamza Abbas’s Closing His Eyes, Hassan Blasim’s The Reality and the Record, and Ahmed…
Vonnegut, Kurt. 2016. In If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Edited by Dan Wakefield. New York: Seven Stories Press. A 1970 commencement speech from Kurt Vonnegut, in which he argues that art restores innocence and optimism…
Herman, Peter C. 2018. Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 41, no. 3: 165-193. Peter C. Herman argues that Thomas More’s novel Utopia, Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, and Dave Eggers’s novel The…
Gallagher, Rosemary. 2012. Studies in American Humor 26: 73-84. Gallagher synthesizes the use of humor in narratives of war as well as those of peace, through the lens of famous anti-war novelist Kurt Vonnegut. She…
Mohammed, Sadek R. 2018. World Literature Today 92, no. 2: 32-36. Mohammed discusses the history of the Iraqi novel from the 1920s onward, including the large output in the 1960s, the character of highly censored…