Vonnegut’s armageddon (and semicolons) in retrospect
Some critics have characterized Kurt Vonnegut’s Armageddon in Retrospect as a disappointing epitaph, and I can see why. This collection of previously unpublished writings on war and peace doesn’t really cohere as a traditional anthology. But as a road map of the literary path Vonnegut followed from a POW-repatriation camp to the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five 23 years later, it is . . .