Walzer, Michael Forward 08-13-2004 Michael Walzer is UPS Foundation professor of social studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and is co-editor of Dissent magazine. The above is...

WAR Paper offered simplistic view of history Sunday, December 9, 2001 I was surprised at the simplistic and inaccurate headline on the front page of the Dec. 2 Crossroads section. Under "Americans have taken up arms many times to defend their...

War And The Media: Day after day, Americans are treated to a never-ending, mind-numbing parade of statistics about the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. But what about the terrorists?One way the media distort Americans' view of the ongoing war against terrorists...

War On Terror: In a sly semantic move, a Democrat House Committee secretly ordered the removal of all references to the "Global War On Terror," nonchalantly claiming it wasn't political. Who are they fooling?The Military Times reported that Erin Conaton, a staffer on Missouri Rep....

In Timothy Findley's novel The Wars, Robert Ross, soon after arriving in Europe, finds himself leading a line of horses through thick green fog. The foul smell of the air puzzles him, but Poole, his batman, detects the odour of chlorine that has soaked into the ground.

The smell was unnerving—as if some presence were lurking in the fog like a dragon in a story. Poole was quite correct; the ground was saturated with gas. Chlorine and phosgene were currently both in use. Mustard gas...

We no longer believe that some subjects are more appropriate for literary treatment than others: nowadays, every human activity, no matter how banal or disgusting, offers itself as legitimate material for the imagination to work on and turn into art…. There seem to be some subjects, however, which have a built-in intransigence to literary treatment because their historical reality, overwhelmingly banal, perhaps, or overwhelmingly disgusting, surpasses anything that the creative imagination can make o...

[Brevity] is disastrous in the hands of Timothy Findley. In fact understatement of a very slick and ineffective sort is chronically recurrent in The Wars…. The story is well told, the scenes follow each other with sure logic, and, with one or two exceptions, the thematic interest arises naturally from the events instead of being forced. The stylistic slickness of which I complained consists mainly of the frequent use of telegraphic one-liners (which one reviewer has associated—I think wrongly&...

Essay shows the perversion of nature of war in relation to Timothy Findley's novel "The Wars."

Essay provides a literary analysis of the rape of Robert Ross in the novel "The Wars" by Timothy Findley.