Lyle Jeremy Rubin on the sinister seductions of "humane war"
Christopher Benfey, "Melville's Counterpane"
Sanford Schwartz on Hans Holbein the Younger
Michelle Stevens on Paul Robeson
Karl Kirchwey on his uncle and his father in World War II
James Mumford on Eliot's modernist Christianity
Michael Autrey, "Head-On: In Love and Grief"
Jodie Noel Vinson, "Flightless"
Gregory Jones-Katz on education and capitalism in China
James Delbourgo on the mixed motives of museum collectors
James Buzard, "Liquid Dorrit"
Marjorie Perloff, "Tolstoyan Realism"
Art by Dylan Foglesong
Fiction by Samuel Klonimos, and Thomas Ross
Poetry by George Kalogeris, Gabriel Levin, and Lisa Russ Spaar