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Andrew Lanham

Andrew Lanham is a graduate student in English literature at Yale, writing a cultural history of American warfare in the 20th century. His work has also appeared in Boston Review, Pacific Standard, The Millions, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. icon

The Art of (Not Forgetting) War

By Andrew Lanham

Many of the images in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibit World War I and the Visual Arts depict the war in such violent detail that their authors ...

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