UPCOMING ISSUES
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Stories by Ernest Finney and Kent Nelson join an incredible lineup of essays, including William Cain on Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Russell Fraser on Austin Warren, Mel Livatino on Joseph Epstein, David Mason on a new biography of James Joyce, and Philip Weinstein on the 50th anniversary of Faulkner’s death. In addition David Heddendorf compares Trollope's Orley Farm to The Scarlet Letter, John W. Crowley revaluates The Age of Innocence in light of the electronic revolution, Robert Lacy revaluates John Hawkes, Richard Stern lets us take a peek at his reading journal, and Kathleen Tarr, a new contributor, writes about her personal experience of the intersection of Alaska, Russia, Boris Pasternak, and Thomas Merton. Reviews include Cushing Strout on Arthur Conan Doyle, Brendan Galvin on R. T. Smith's new collection of poems inspired by Flannery O'Connor, F. D. Reeve on Joseph Frank’s analysis of Dostoevsky, Nancy Revelle Johnson on Edith Wharton’s letters to Anna Bahlmann, and Merritt Moseley does double-duty reviewing several new books on Dickens as well as making his annual report on the Man Booker Prize shortlist. And finally this issue offers a special section of tributes to contributors who have recently died: Noel Polk, Madison Jones, and Joseph Frank. THIS ISSUE IS CLOSED.
Our essay issue features travel in the literal and metaphorical senses with essays by Warner Berthoff, G. D. Lillibridge, and Seymour Toll about treks as young men in the turbulent times of the forties; Jim Brown remembers a short trip to a "Delta Funeral"; and Robert Ashcom writes about his adventures as a young man in the fifties. You'll also find personal dispatches from regular contributors Earl Rovit, Catharine Savage Brosman, Richard O'Mara, Robert Lacy, and Gerald Weales. This issue is packed with reviews, short and long. Sam Pickering alone takes on nine books! Casey Clabough (recently featured in the Oxford American) offers an omnibus reviews of recent books on Southern writers. Nancy Revelle Johnson, our expert in memoir, gives a brief review of Motherhood Exaggerated and Philip Parotti reviews the next volume of Peter Liddle's oral history project in Captured Memories from the world wars of the twentieth century. Fiction by Andrew Plattner and Nancy Huddleston Packer joins the poetry of Stephen Behrendt, Michael Mott, David Havird, and others. THIS ISSUE IS CLOSED.
Emily Grosholz presents her Aiken Taylor Award lecture on Debora Greger, David Yezzi presents his Aiken Taylor Award lecture on William Logan, and Jay Parini publishes the lecture on poetry and spirituality he gave when he visited The University of the South. Earl Rovit writes on the rise of modernism in the twenties, and H. L. Weatherby writes on Spenser; A. Banerjee talks about Eliot as an editor and a publisher. Reviews by various hands join poetry by Gardner McFall, Patricia Hooper, Brian Culhane, Floyd Skloot, Tom Zemsky, and others.
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