World War One
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Book Review
TOBY’S ROOM, by Pat Barker. The dual explosion of sex and death within the superficially tranquil home is a familiar theme for Barker, in whose novels the past lays detonating charges along the paths of characters’ lives.
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Interview
JOHN BOYNE, author of “The Absolutist.” “A lot of conscientious objectors would do some work on farms, or in field hospitals, or were made to be stretcher-bearers. But there was this small group of people, absolutists, who wouldn’t do anything.”
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Book Review
THE MISSING OF THE SOMME, by Geoff Dyer. A lyrical meditation on memory and the meaning of World War I, first published in Britain in 1994.
