JACKSON LEARS is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University and editor in chief of Raritan Quarterly. He has written five books in American cultural history, the most recent of which is Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street. His essays and reviews have appeared in The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and The New Republic; they will be collected in Conjurers, Cranks, Provincials, and Antediluvians: The Off-Modern in American History.KAREN PARKER LEARS is associate editor of Raritan Quarterly. From her art studio, Swansquarter, she works under the name M. Fortuna. She has had solo shows at Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and at the Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters Gallery in New Brunswick, New Jersey.  She created illuminations for Women Writers of Latin America: Intimate Histories. Her work can be viewed on the website swansquarter.com.

"Jackson and Karen Lears have given us a compelling and relevant collection of writings revealing the human, geopolitical, and moral costs of America’s long engagement with perpetual global war. Raritan on War is a profoundly important intervention in its revelations of the human consequences-at home and abroad-of the bipartisan commitment to war making." - Katrina vanden Heuvel (editorial director and publisher, The Nation) "At a time when armed conflict is not just widespread, but rehabilitated and sanctified in the eyes of many, Raritan on War is an important reminder of its ruination, its viciousness, and maybe most important, of the artifice and forgetting that lead societies to justify its use." - Branko Marcetic (Jacobin) "Raritan on War gives us a collection of beautifully told, unforgettable portraits of war and its ills. Bringing to life the voices and imagery of victims who have suffered war’s devastating harms, as well as the insidious role played by defenders of war, this volume represents the legacy of Raritan at its literary and timeless best." - Karen Greenberg (author of Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump) "While spanning a wide range of wars and eras, this anthology also offers a sharp focus on the U.S. warfare state in the present day. Raritan on War powerfully challenges us to look anew at the unhinged militarism that permeates American society." - Norman Solomon (author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine)

• IntroductionVictoria De GraziaYou Are Not Alone, Stalingrad: Reflections on the 75th AnniversaryPatrick LawrenceAssange behind GlassM. FortunaPercussion of Cut and Salve (painting-assemblage)Michael MillerSix Years from Afghanistan (poetry)C. Felix AmerasingheThe Road to Revolution (fiction)Andrew J. BacevichWar and the Failures of the Fourth EstateDavid FerryLabores: A Translation from the Aeneid (poetry)Jochen Hellbeck and Emma Dodge HansonRemembering Stalingrad (photo-essay)Peter LaBierWhite Fright (painting)Elizabeth D. SametMake Movies, Not WarKarl KirchweyMutabor: Halberstadt (poetry)Ray KlimekCarbon Burn (digital chromogenic print)Robert WestbrookBourne over BaghdadLyle Jeremy RubinThe Man Who Knew Too Muchd. mark levitt,god is water (painting)Tamas DobozyThe Animals of the Budapest Zoo, 1944-1945 (fiction)Sherod SantosThe Art of the Landscape (poetry)Cai Guo-QiangDrawing for Transient Rainbow (drawing)ContributorsAbout the EditorsImage CreditsPermissions

JACKSON LEARS is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University and editor in chief of Raritan Quarterly. He has written five books in American cultural history, the most recent of which is Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street. His essays and reviews have appeared in The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and The New Republic; they will be collected in Conjurers, Cranks, Provincials, and Antediluvians: The Off-Modern in American History.KAREN PARKER LEARS is associate editor of Raritan Quarterly. From her art studio, Swansquarter, she works under the name M. Fortuna. She has had solo shows at Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and at the Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters Gallery in New Brunswick, New Jersey.  She created illuminations for Women Writers of Latin America: Intimate Histories. Her work can be viewed on the website swansquarter.com.

"Jackson and Karen Lears have given us a compelling and relevant collection of writings revealing the human, geopolitical, and moral costs of America’s long engagement with perpetual global war. Raritan on War is a profoundly important intervention in its revelations of the human consequences-at home and abroad-of the bipartisan commitment to war making." - Katrina vanden Heuvel (editorial director and publisher, The Nation) "At a time when armed conflict is not just widespread, but rehabilitated and sanctified in the eyes of many, Raritan on War is an important reminder of its ruination, its viciousness, and maybe most important, of the artifice and forgetting that lead societies to justify its use." - Branko Marcetic (Jacobin) "Raritan on War gives us a collection of beautifully told, unforgettable portraits of war and its ills. Bringing to life the voices and imagery of victims who have suffered war’s devastating harms, as well as the insidious role played by defenders of war, this volume represents the legacy of Raritan at its literary and timeless best." - Karen Greenberg (author of Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump) "While spanning a wide range of wars and eras, this anthology also offers a sharp focus on the U.S. warfare state in the present day. Raritan on War powerfully challenges us to look anew at the unhinged militarism that permeates American society." - Norman Solomon (author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine)

• IntroductionVictoria De GraziaYou Are Not Alone, Stalingrad: Reflections on the 75th AnniversaryPatrick LawrenceAssange behind GlassM. FortunaPercussion of Cut and Salve (painting-assemblage)Michael MillerSix Years from Afghanistan (poetry)C. Felix AmerasingheThe Road to Revolution (fiction)Andrew J. BacevichWar and the Failures of the Fourth EstateDavid FerryLabores: A Translation from the Aeneid (poetry)Jochen Hellbeck and Emma Dodge HansonRemembering Stalingrad (photo-essay)Peter LaBierWhite Fright (painting)Elizabeth D. SametMake Movies, Not WarKarl KirchweyMutabor: Halberstadt (poetry)Ray KlimekCarbon Burn (digital chromogenic print)Robert WestbrookBourne over BaghdadLyle Jeremy RubinThe Man Who Knew Too Muchd. mark levitt,god is water (painting)Tamas DobozyThe Animals of the Budapest Zoo, 1944-1945 (fiction)Sherod SantosThe Art of the Landscape (poetry)Cai Guo-QiangDrawing for Transient Rainbow (drawing)ContributorsAbout the EditorsImage CreditsPermissions

JACKSON LEARS is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University and editor in chief of Raritan Quarterly. He has written five books in American cultural history, the most recent of which is Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street. His essays and reviews have appeared in The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and The New Republic; they will be collected in Conjurers, Cranks, Provincials, and Antediluvians: The Off-Modern in American History.KAREN PARKER LEARS is associate editor of Raritan Quarterly. From her art studio, Swansquarter, she works under the name M. Fortuna. She has had solo shows at Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and at the Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters Gallery in New Brunswick, New Jersey.  She created illuminations for Women Writers of Latin America: Intimate Histories. Her work can be viewed on the website swansquarter.com.

"Jackson and Karen Lears have given us a compelling and relevant collection of writings revealing the human, geopolitical, and moral costs of America’s long engagement with perpetual global war. Raritan on War is a profoundly important intervention in its revelations of the human consequences-at home and abroad-of the bipartisan commitment to war making." - Katrina vanden Heuvel (editorial director and publisher, The Nation) "At a time when armed conflict is not just widespread, but rehabilitated and sanctified in the eyes of many, Raritan on War is an important reminder of its ruination, its viciousness, and maybe most important, of the artifice and forgetting that lead societies to justify its use." - Branko Marcetic (Jacobin) "Raritan on War gives us a collection of beautifully told, unforgettable portraits of war and its ills. Bringing to life the voices and imagery of victims who have suffered war’s devastating harms, as well as the insidious role played by defenders of war, this volume represents the legacy of Raritan at its literary and timeless best." - Karen Greenberg (author of Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump) "While spanning a wide range of wars and eras, this anthology also offers a sharp focus on the U.S. warfare state in the present day. Raritan on War powerfully challenges us to look anew at the unhinged militarism that permeates American society." - Norman Solomon (author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine)

• IntroductionVictoria De GraziaYou Are Not Alone, Stalingrad: Reflections on the 75th AnniversaryPatrick LawrenceAssange behind GlassM. FortunaPercussion of Cut and Salve (painting-assemblage)Michael MillerSix Years from Afghanistan (poetry)C. Felix AmerasingheThe Road to Revolution (fiction)Andrew J. BacevichWar and the Failures of the Fourth EstateDavid FerryLabores: A Translation from the Aeneid (poetry)Jochen Hellbeck and Emma Dodge HansonRemembering Stalingrad (photo-essay)Peter LaBierWhite Fright (painting)Elizabeth D. SametMake Movies, Not WarKarl KirchweyMutabor: Halberstadt (poetry)Ray KlimekCarbon Burn (digital chromogenic print)Robert WestbrookBourne over BaghdadLyle Jeremy RubinThe Man Who Knew Too Muchd. mark levitt,god is water (painting)Tamas DobozyThe Animals of the Budapest Zoo, 1944-1945 (fiction)Sherod SantosThe Art of the Landscape (poetry)Cai Guo-QiangDrawing for Transient Rainbow (drawing)ContributorsAbout the EditorsImage CreditsPermissions