5/21/2023 0 Comments Draw your weapons sarah sentilles![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With echoes of Susan Sontag and Maggie Nelson, Sentilles investigates images of violence from the era of slavery to the drone age. The pacifist and the soldier both create art in response to war: Howard builds a violin Miles paints portraits of detainees. In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib, and in the process she challenges conventional thinking about how war is waged, witnessed, and resisted. It is a literary collage with an urgent hope at its core: that art might offer tools for remaking the world. Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle. “How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?” But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world-and that makes all the difference. ![]() A single book might not change the world. ![]()
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