War as an art form.

The article informs about several best writers of the twentieth century including George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, and John Hersey that are published in The New Yorker and why it published nothing by Ernest Heming way for over twenty years. Topics include histories have supplemented and occasionally corrected the factual material in the "African Trilogy" and "Eclipse" by John Shirley; and impressionistic descriptions of dying institutions, resistance to change, and human foibles show.