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Steven Biel

Steven Biel

Steven Biel is Executive Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center and Senior Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University. His books include American Gothic: A Life of America’s Most Famous Painting (2005) and Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (1996, 2012). icon

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B-Sides: Gustav Hasford’s “The Short-Timers”

By Steven Biel

The most persistent source of anguish in war stories may be the inability to tell them: the sense of a vast experiential and moral distance between the battlefield ...

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