UPCOMING ISSUES

"Such Friends"                                                                   winter 2009

Our first issue of 2009 is dedicated to the enduring connections of friendship.  Earl Rovit and Richard Stern address the consolations of close relationships in their essays, while James L. W. West III examines the bittersweet friendship of William Styron and Ralph Ellison in his piece.
    William Pritchard, Stuart Wright, Benjamin Griffith, and Hilary Masters examine the mighty intellects of Huxley and Warren as well as the mighty egos of Dickey and Humphrey in their reviews of the latest collections of letters from these literary giants. Giants of criticism Edmund Wilson and Stark Young are honored by Warner Berthoff and Bert Cardullo in their essays. David Mason, longtime friend of the magazine, has his latest verse-novel, Ludlow reviewed by R. S. Gwynn, along with a full compliment of literary criticism, covering authors from Joseph Epstein to Nancy Peacock.
    Cushing Strout investigates non-fiction mysteries with reviews of Jared Cade and Kate Summerscale’s historical accounts of Agatha Christie’s disappearance and the Road Hill Murder. William Hoffman’s play “The Spirit in Me” makes its debut in our pages as well, an adaptation of Hoffman’s fiction piece first published in the Sewanee Review’s spring 1974 issue. And to round out the theatrical offerings, Ed Minus returns with his Manhattan theater chronicle.


But it is surely their connections with our own lives that give the play much of its power, just as our efforts to back off and laugh, condemn and disclaim create much of the tension and most of the dark but pervasive comedy.

—Ed Minus "Playgoing in Manhattan"

And of course an array of poetry from Michael Mott, Wesley McNair, Len Krisak, B. H. Fairchild, Gladys Swan and others makes its debut in this issue.

"Teaching and Empires of the Mind"                     spring 2009

We pay homage to professors past as Lillian R. Furst, Henry Hart, and George Watson reminisce on the halls of Oxford and Cambridge. Robert Benson and Roger Sale, professors in their own right,  remember the teachers that shaped their careers. And Merrill Joan Gerber, Mel Livatino, and Nancy Huddleston Packer recall their favorite mentors Smith Kirkpatrick, James Stronks, and Wallace Stegner in fond memoirs.


"Unhappy Families"                                                        summer 2009

The summer issue of 2009 has a record-setting amount of short fiction, with a whopping nine stories packed into its pages. Sewanee Review veterans Marlin Barton, John J. Clayton, Giles Fowler, Mairi Macinnes, Nancy Huddleston Packer, Gladys Swan, and Brooks Wright fill our fiction department along with newcomers Jean Ross Justice and Jacob White. And David Heddendorf takes on a doubleheader of reviews on John Updike and Alice Thomas Ellis.