July 26, 2014
Body of War
A review of Suzanne Church’s “Coolies” in Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction (Edge, 2014) By Derek Newman-Stille War evokes complicated loyalties and dangerous moral questions. War involves the engagement of elaborate systems of propaganda that make moral choices seem easy, breaking down their complexity into black and white, good and evil, win and lose. In Suzanne Church’s “Coolies”, the...