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Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel  (vpostrel.com) is the author of The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion. Her next book, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, will be published in November. She lives in Los Angeles.

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by Virginia Postrel | Wednesday, May 20, 2020
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A Tale of War and Forgetting

by Neil Shea

In honor of Memorial Day this Monday, we’re revisiting this powerful essay from contributing editor Neil Shea, written just after the centennial of the First World War. Shea reflects on the war through the lens of Impressionist painting— viewed up close, he writes, “there is bravery and blindness, splinters of bone and steel, mud, horror, cacophony.” As time goes on, however, we risk seeing the war “as a vague event portrayed in colors that seem almost quaint.”