UPCOMING ISSUES

 Village Life and the Natural World                           spring 2012

We have six (6!) stories lined up in addition to 6 new contributors for this fiction and criticism issue. All the stories and half the essays revolve through and around small-town rural life. Robert Benson meditates on hunting and the craft of writing; Robert Lacy writes on trout fishing; and Gladys Swan gives us a dose of the "Tonic of the Wilderness." Four of the seven stories are by writers new to the Review, and we welcome Ross Howell from North Carolina, Richard Jacobs from Pennsylvania, Robert Schirmer from New York, and Mark Walling from Oklahoma. They join previous contributors Thomas Bontly and Austin Smith, whose first contribution to the magazine came in the fall issue.  Reviews include Colin Fleming's take on Richard Burgin's new novel, Rivers Last Longer, Robert Arrington on Marilynne Robinson's new nonfiction, an essay by Cushing Strout on Mark Twain and the "idea of progress," Merritt Moseley on the 2011 Booker Prize, and Floyd Skloot on Sewanee's own Kevin Wilson and The Family Fang.  With this issue being thoroughly devoted to fiction, the poetry pickings will naturally be slimmer than the current issue; but we still have Robert Behm, Robert Bense, Catherine Savage Brosman, Eamon Grennan, and Barry Sternlieb lined up for this exciting issue! THIS ISSUE IS CLOSED.

Autobiography and Biography                                     summer 2012

The summer issue of the magazine will revive another popular theme among our readers—autobiography and biography.  Philip Terzian of the Weekly Standard discusses his reading life in "A Literary Pilgrimage"; William B. Dillingham writes on "Kipling, W. E. Henley, St. Paul, and Discipleship";  Stephen Miller considers the life of the late Elizabeth Hardwick; and expect additional essays from Jonathan Bloom, Scott Donaldson, Hilary Masters, Richard O'Mara, and others.  Stuart Wright reviews Robert Penn Warren's 5th volume of letters, George Poe reviews books on life in France during WWII, and new contributor Harry Lee Poe evaluates the recently published Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis.  Other esteemed reviewers include some familiar names—Ann E. Berthoff, Russell Fraser, Nancy Revelle Johnson, and Sanford Pinsker.  William Trevor and and Franklin Burroughs provide the issue with strong fiction pieces, and William Harmon, X. J. Kennedy, Wesley McNair, and first-time contributor David Moulton add plenty of excellent poetry.  Check back with us as this issue continues to take shape. THIS ISSUE IS CLOSED.  

The State of Reading                                                                                    fall 2012

We are currently in the planning process for a special Fall 2012 issue, which will conclude our groundbreaking 120th volume.  Without spoiling the surprise, if you are at all interested in the future of publishing, reading, and the book—and if you're reading this, we have a hunch that you are—get ready for what will certainly be a seminal issue of the Sewanee Review with a star-studded list of new and old contributors.