"So it goes." Billy Pilgrim's unstuck-in-time structure is both a formal innovation and the only honest response to the firebombing of Dresden: there is no narrative that can contain mass death, so the novel does not try. Vonnegut published it in 1969. The anti-war novel that made subsequent anti-war novels possible.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.