Power creates wars; wars create power. But these compelling acts of storytelling are breaking the loop | Charlotte Higgins

Artists’ acts of remembrance about destruction and violence defy the dominant narratives of heroism and sacrificeThe way stories are told about wars really matters. It is a point powerfully made by the classical scholar Alice König who, in her work on ancient and modern warfare, points out that the way war is depicted and narrativised feeds into the way wars…