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Volume 65, Number
4
- Frances Mayes’s “10,000 Rules to Live By”
- Ashley Brown’s “T.S. Eliot In the Postmodern Age”
- Robert Zaretsky’s “The Eclipse of Memory”
- Scott Donaldson’s “The Jilting of Ernest Hemingway”
- Stories by Frances Mayes, Ashley Brown, Robert Zaretsky, and Scott Donaldson
- Poetry by Sherod Santos, Meredith Briggs Skeath, Judith E. Johnson, and Keith Althaus
Volume 65, Number
3
- Morris Freedman’s “My Last Summer Session”
- Edward L. Greenamyre’s “The Pitfalls of Symptomatic Empiricism: I Counted So Long and Still Got It Wrong”
- Sholom J. Kahn’s “Albert L? Gu?rd (1880-1959): the Styles of A Humanist”
- Brian C. Rosenberg’s “Mary Lee Settle and the Critics”
- Stories by Morris Freedman, Edward L. Greenamyre, Sholom J. Kahn, and Brian C. Rosenberg
Volume 65, Number
2
- Bill Berry’s “Class Southerner”
- Lance Olsen’s “The Next Generation In Fiction”
- Nancy Hale’s “The Toimi”
- Peter Harris’s “Whole Volumes: Quality of Vision In the Work of Sadoff, Bursk, and Hoffmann”
- Stories by Bill Berry, Lance Olsen, Nancy Hale, and Peter Harris
- Poetry by Tom Andrews, Jane Mead, and Lynn Doyle
Volume 65, Number
1
- George Watson’s “The Americanness of American Poetry”
- Russell Fraser’s “Monteverdi and the Immorality of Art”
- Samuel Pickering’s “Politics”
- Paul Barolsky’s “Joyce’s Distant Music”
- Stories by George Watson, Russell Fraser, Samuel Pickering, and Paul Barolsky
- Poetry by Dave Smith, Mark Halliday, Audrey Bohanan, and Roger Fanning
Volume 64, Number
4
- Frances Mayes’s “Islands In Summer”
- William Peden’s “Thomas Jefferson: The Man as Reflected in His Account Books”
- James M. Banner’s “France and the Origins of American Political Culture”
- Sanford Pinsker’s “Modernist Culture, the Cunning of History, and Paul De Man”
- Stories by Frances Mayes, William Peden, James M. Banner, and Sanford Pinsker
- Poetry by Susan Stewart, Ross Taylor, Sandy Solomon, and John Engman
Volume 64, Number
3
- Helen Barolini’s “Horace’s Torte”
- Paul Roazen’s “Normality and Nihilism”
- Hank Lazer’s “Poetry and Thought: the Example of Czeslaw Milosz”
- Tennant S. Mcwilliams’s “John W. Davis and Southern Wilsonianism”
- Stories by Helen Barolini, Paul Roazen, Hank Lazer, and Tennant S. Mcwilliams
- Poetry by Stephen Dunn, Sarah Provost, Ron Smith, and Stanley Moss
Volume 64, Number
2
- Mildred Raynolds Trivers’s “The Storm God”
- Peter Harris’s “Poetry Chronicle: Four Salvers Salvaging: New Work By Voigt, Olds, Dove, and McHugh”
- Nancy Huddleston Packer’s “The Man Who Said No”
- Arthur F. Kinney’s “Flannery O’Connor and the Art of the Holy”
- Stories by Mildred Raynolds Trivers, Peter Harris, Nancy Huddleston Packer, and Arthur F. Kinney
- Poetry by Ira Sadoff, Mark Halliday, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, and Stuart Downs
Volume 64, Number
1
- David Kirby’s “The Sex Lives of the James Family”
- Jean Edward Smith’s “General Clay and the Russians: A Continuation of the Wartime Alliance in Germany, 1945-1948”
- James Axtell’s “Confessions of A Bibliolater”
- Paul Roazen’s “Louis Hartz’s Teaching”
- Stories by David Kirby, Jean Edward Smith, James Axtell, and Paul Roazen
- Poetry by Kathleen Norms, James Applewhite, Debra Bruce, and Daniel Corrie
Volume 63, Number
4
- Samuel Pickering’s “Ink Blots”
- Richard O’Mara’s “Recollections of a Nomad”
- William Howard Adams’s “The Virginians and the Veneto”
- George Watson’s “The Doubting of Skepticism”
- Stories by Samuel Pickering, Richard O’Mara, William Howard Adams, and George Watson
- Poetry by Mary Oliver, Paulette Roeske, Thomas Lux, and Kelly Rowe
Volume 63, Number
3
- Marie Borroff’s “Rafting Down the Grand Canyon: A Meditation”
- Howard Wolf’s “Television, Theory, and the Avant-Garde: Johnny, the Colonel, and Late Modernism”
- Peter Harris’s “A Shelter, A Kingdom, A Half Promised Land: Three Poets In Mid-Career”
- Stephen Railton’s “Jim and Mark Twain: What Do Dey Stan’ For?”
- Stories by Marie Borroff, Howard Wolf, Peter Harris, and Stephen Railton
- Poetry by Greg Kuzma, Sidney Wade, Michael McFee, and Peter Desy
Volume 63, Number
2
- Robert Mason’s “His Brother Joe 1914?1964”
- Russell Fraser’s “Wadi-Bashing In Arabia Deserta”
- W. D. Ehrhart’s “Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War”
- Hugh Davis Graham’s “The Paradox of Eleanor Roosevelt: Alcoholism’s Child”
- Stories by Robert Mason, Russell Fraser, W. D. Ehrhart, and Hugh Davis Graham
- Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates, Ellen Bryant Voigt, W. D. Ehrhart, and Karin Ash
Volume 63, Number
1
- Murray Milner’s “Dirt and Development in India”
- John Seelye’s “Beyond the Shining Mountains: the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an Enlightenment Epic”
- Darwin J. Flakoll’s “La Vida En Deya”
- Monroe K. Spears’s “James Dickey as a Southern Visionary”
- Stories by Murray Milner, John Seelye, Darwin J. Flakoll, and Monroe K. Spears
Volume 62, Number
4
- Samuel Pickering’s “Son and Father”
- Robert Schultz’s “Gary Snyder and the Curve of Return”
- Scott Donaldson’s “Supermarket and Superhighway: John Cheever’s America”
- Elliott J. Gorn’s “John L. Sullivan: The Champion of All Champions”
- Stories by Samuel Pickering, Robert Schultz, Scott Donaldson, and Elliott J. Gorn
Volume 62, Number
3
- Hans A. Schmitt’s “How I Fled Nazi Germany”
- Viola Hopkins Winner’s “Henry Adams and Lafayette Square, 1877-1885”
- Richard O’Mara’s “Getting Out the Views”
- Nathan A. Scott’s “The New Trahison Des Clercs: Reflections on the Present Crisis In Humanistic Studies”
- Stories by Hans A. Schmitt, Viola Hopkins Winner, Richard O’Mara, and Nathan A. Scott
- Poetry by Lisa Russ Spaar, Robert Bly, Wendell Berry, and Robert Morgan
Volume 62, Number
2
- Morris Freedman’s “Moma and Me”
- Susan Mernit’s “The State of the Short Story”
- George Watson’s “Osborne, Pinter, Stoppard: A Playful Look At London Since 1956”
- Mary Davidson Mcconahay’s “ ‘Heidelberry Braids’ and Yankee Politesse: Jean Stafford and Robert Lowell Reconsidered”
- Stories by Morris Freedman, Susan Mernit, George Watson, and Mary Davidson Mcconahay
- Poetry by Aleda Shirley, Sarah Provost, Peter Cooley, and Len Roberts
Volume 62, Number
1
- Harry S. Ashmore’s “Doubling the Standard”
- Irby B. Cauthen’s “Family Pieces”
- John Milton Cooper’s “Theodore Roosevelt: On Clio’s Active Service”
- George Core’s “Mr. Tate and the Limits of Poetry”
- Stories by Harry S. Ashmore, Irby B. Cauthen, John Milton Cooper, and George Core
- Poetry by Gail Wronsky, Alice Fulton, Kim Stafford, and Conrad Hilberry
Volume 61, Number
4
- David Kirby’s “Mental Health In High Office: Psychological Problems, Political Cures”
- Paul L. Gaston’s “ ‘This Question of Discipline’: An Interview with Anthony Powell”
- Jeffrey Meyers’s “The Quest for Hemingway”
- Ian Stevenson, M.D.’s “The End of Patient Abuse In Medical Care”
- Stories by David Kirby, Paul L. Gaston, Jeffrey Meyers, and Ian Stevenson, M.D.
- Poetry by Louis Simpson, Donald Hall, Frank John Edwards, and David Rosenberg
Volume 61, Number
3
- Malcolm Cowley’s “Peter Blume: Painting the Phoenix”
- Patrick Samway, S.J.’s “Faulkner, Encore Une Fois”
- Robert A. Gross’s “The Great Bean Field Hoax: Thoreau and the Agricultural Reformers”
- Jesse Bier’s “Cobb and Kubrick: Author and Auteur: (Paths of Glory As Novel and Film)”
- Stories by Malcolm Cowley, Patrick Samway, S.J., Robert A. Gross, and Jesse Bier
- Poetry by Lee Upton, Linda Gregg, David Wagoner, and Robert Schultz
Volume 61, Number
2
- Wendy W. Fairey’s “In My Mother’s House: Images of a Hollywood Childhood”
- Henry Petroski’s “Numeracy and Literacy: The Two Cultures and the Computer Revolution”
- Anne Hobson Freeman’s “Hugh”
- Monroe K. Spears’s “George Garrett and the Historical Novel”
- Stories by Wendy W. Fairey, Henry Petroski, Anne Hobson Freeman, and Monroe K. Spears
- Poetry by Hayden Carruth, Ron Slate, William Heyen, and Ed Ochester
Volume 61, Number
1
- Joyce Carol Oates’s “Romance and Anti-Romance: From Bronte’s Jane Eyre to Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea”
- Elissa S. Guralnick’s “Radio Drama: the Stage of the Mind”
- Samuel Pickering’s “Man of Letters”
- Anthony Storr’s “The Sanity of True Genius”
- Stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Elissa S. Guralnick, Samuel Pickering, and Anthony Storr
- Poetry by Rodney Jones, Pattiann Rogers, Peter Meinke, and David Huddle
Volume 60, Number
4
- Jay Silverman’s “Felix”
- Richard Jones’s “William Golding: Genius and Sublime Silly-Billy”
- Robert Schultz’s “Dispersions and Freedom: The Situation of Contemporary Poetry”
- Norman A. Graebner’s “The Soviet-American Conflict: A Strange Phenomenon”
- Stories by Jay Silverman, Richard Jones, Robert Schultz, and Norman A. Graebner
- Poetry by Diane Ackerman, Kim Stafford, Martha Collins, and Sue Owen
Volume 60, Number
3
- Paul M. Gaston’s “Irony In Utopia: the Discovery of Nancy Lewis”
- Samuel Yellen’s “The Two Kneelings of King Lear”
- Paul Barolsky’s “The Case of the Domesticated Aesthete”
- Anthony Shaw’s “Informed Nonconsent: Ethical Dilemmas In Medical Decision-Making”
- Stories by Paul M. Gaston, Samuel Yellen, Paul Barolsky, and Anthony Shaw
- Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates, James Ulmer, Baron Wormser, and Franz Wright
Volume 60, Number
2
- Joyce Van Dyke’s “Inventing Emily Dickinson”
- Nathan A. Scott’s “Elizabeth Bishop: Poet Without Myth”
- George C. Herring’s “Some Legacies and Lessons of Vietnam”
- Sterling J. Kernek’s “Historical Reflections on the Dangers Ahead”
- Stories by Joyce Van Dyke, Nathan A. Scott, George C. Herring, and Sterling J. Kernek
- Poetry by Stuart Dybek, Jack Anderson, Marvin Bell, and Robert Morgan
Volume 60, Number
1
- Spence W. Perry’s “Economic Controls In the Seventies: Potemkin Villages on the Potomac”
- John Seelye’s “Attic Shape: Dusting Off Evangeline”
- William Collins Watterson’s “His Master’s Voice”
- Richard R. Guzman’s “ ‘As in Myth, the Signs Were All Over’: The Fiction of N. V. M. Gonzalez”
- Stories by Spence W. Perry, John Seelye, William Collins Watterson, and Richard R. Guzman
- Poetry by Martha Webb, Greg Kuzma, John Unterecker, and Susan Ludvigson
Volume 59, Number
4
- Sylvia Sunderlin’s “The Year I Was the Duchess”
- Irving Louis Horowitz’s “Printed Words, Computers, and Democratic Societies”
- Edgar F. Shannon’s “ ‘The Thews of Anakim’: Postulations of the Superhuman in Tennyson’s Poetry”
- William Attwood’s “Twenty Years After Dallas”
- Stories by Sylvia Sunderlin, Irving Louis Horowitz, Edgar F. Shannon, and William Attwood
- Poetry by Alice Fulton, Leslie E. Taylor Jr., Kate Daniels, and Cleopatra Mathis
Volume 59, Number
3
- Morris Freedman’s “I Teach at CCNY”
- Oscar Mandel’s “Dr. Watson to Dulcinea”
- David Wykes’s “Orwell In the Trenches”
- Harry S. Ashmore’s “Below the Bottom Line”
- Stories by Morris Freedman, Oscar Mandel, David Wykes, and Harry S. Ashmore
- Poetry by Louis Simpson, Dabney Stuart, Peter Balakian, and Hank Lazer
Volume 59, Number
2
- Adda B. Bozeman’s “Decline of the West? Spengler Reconsidered”
- Bernard P. Kiernan’s “The Conservative Illusion”
- Max Putzel’s “Faulkner’s Memphis Stories”
- Arthur F. Kinney’s “In Search of Flannery O’Connor”
- Stories by Adda B. Bozeman, Bernard P. Kiernan, Max Putzel, and Arthur F. Kinney
- Poetry by Stephen Dunn, Richard Jones, John Skoyles, and Shirley Kaufman
Volume 59, Number
1
- Richard L. Predmore’s “Government Language Utilization: the Tower of Babel Resurrected”
- Hans A. Schmitt’s “January 30, 1933: A Memoir”
- Bruce Michelson’s “Lowell Versus Lowell”
- Thaddeus Holt’s “Mr. Clay’s War: A Metahistory”
- Stories by Richard L. Predmore, Hans A. Schmitt, Bruce Michelson, and Thaddeus Holt
- Poetry by Louis Simpson, David Ignatow, David Lehman, and Robert Schultz
Volume 58, Number
4
- Stephen J. Whitfield’s “ ‘One Nation Under God’: The Rise of the Religious Right”
- Lillian Smith’s “The Old Days In Jasper: A Reminiscence”
- Jane Barnes’s “Art and Identity in Richards Jones’ Work”
- Walter R. Coppedge’s “Tol’able David and the American Heritage”
- Stories by Stephen J. Whitfield, Lillian Smith, Jane Barnes, and Walter R. Coppedge
- Poetry by Rainer Maria RilkeFranz Wright, Translator, David Posner, Ramona Weeks, and John Bricuth
Volume 58, Number
3
- Norman A. Graebner’s “The Decline of America: A Countering Appraisal”
- Robert J. Brugger’s “Apocalypse Now: American Military Planning In An Age of Diminishing Possibilities”
- Michael Nelson’s “Evaluative Journalism: A New Synthesis”
- Jeffrey Meyers’s “The Death of Randall Jarrell”
- Stories by Norman A. Graebner, Robert J. Brugger, Michael Nelson, and Jeffrey Meyers
- Poetry by Roger Shattuck, Stephen Sandy, Katherine Kane, and Peter Wild
Volume 58, Number
2
- John Seelye’s “Oceans of Emotion: the Narcissus Syndrome”
- Paul Barolsky’s “Walter Pater’s Renaissance”
- Charlotte H. Scott’s “College Desegregation: Virginia’s Sad Experience”
- Millicent Bell’s “Huckleberry Finn: Journey Without End”
- Stories by John Seelye, Paul Barolsky, Charlotte H. Scott, and Millicent Bell
- Poetry by Irving Feldman, Cynthia Huntington, Michael Cadnum, and Rich Ives
Volume 58, Number
1
- Fred Hobson’s “Gerald W. Johnson: the Southerner As Realist”
- Dudley Poore’s “On the Plain In Spain”
- Merrill Peterson’s “Dumas Malone: the Completion of A Monument”
- Edwin M. Yoder’s “The Sage At Sunset”
- Stories by Fred Hobson, Dudley Poore, Merrill Peterson, and Edwin M. Yoder
- Poetry by Mary Oliver, Georgia Gojmerac-Leiner, David Wagoner, and Conrad Hilberry
Volume 57, Number
4
- Russell Fraser’s “R. P. Blackmur: America’s Best Critic”
- George C. Herring’s “The ‘Vietnam Syndrome’ and American Foreign Policy “
- Hans A. Schmitt’s “The Weakness of European Nation-States”
- Susan Resneck Parr’s “Individual Responsibility in the Great Gatsby”
- Stories by Russell Fraser, George C. Herring, Hans A. Schmitt, and Susan Resneck Parr
- Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates, Martha Collins, Carol Frost, and Sandford Lyne
Volume 57, Number
3
- Robert Coles’s “Freud and God”
- John Israel & Steven H. Hochman’s “Discovering Jefferson in the People’s Republic of China”
- Alfred Burger’s “Drug Development: Challenges and Hurdles”
- Agnes Crawford Schuldt’s “Molecules and Music”
- Stories by Robert Coles, John Israel, Steven H. Hochman, Alfred Burger, and Agnes Crawford Schuldt
- Poetry by John Ashbery, Jane Miller, David McAleavey, and Bonnie Gordon
Volume 57, Number
2
- James A. Nathan’s “Zbigscam: U.S. Foreign Policy, 1976-80”
- Carl N. Degler’s “Rethinking Post-Civil War History”
- Irby B. Cauthen’s “Shakespearean Tragedy and the Nostalgic Vision”
- Samuel Pickering’s “The Books I Left Behind”
- Stories by James A. Nathan, Carl N. Degler, Irby B. Cauthen, and Samuel Pickering
- Poetry by Albert Goldbarth, Mary Ruefle, Forough Farrokhzad, and Laurie Sheck
Volume 57, Number
1
- A. S. Knowles’s “ ‘Shadows on the Sand’ ”
- Charles Maechling’s “Japan and the United States: the Brittle Alliance”
- Walter Harding’s “Walden’s Man of Science”
- Jane Barnes’s “John Updike: A Literary Spider”
- Stories by A. S. Knowles, Charles Maechling, Walter Harding, and Jane Barnes
- Poetry by Daniel Mark Epstein, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Heather McHugh, and Barbara Eve
Volume 56, Number
4
- Lucinda H. Mackethan’s “I’ll Take My Stand: The Relevance of the Agrarian Vision”
- Carol Shloss’s “The Privilege of Perception”
- John Seelye’s “Georgia Boys: the Redclay Satyrs of Erskine Caldwell and Harry Crews”
- Louis J. Halle’s “The Role of the University In International Relations”
- Stories by Lucinda H. Mackethan, Carol Shloss, John Seelye, and Louis J. Halle
- Poetry by Stuart Dybek, Robert Morgan, John Vernon, and Jay Parini
Volume 56, Number
3
- Nora Beloff’s “Russia and the Hundred-Headed Hydra”
- Francelia Butler’s “Children’s Literature: the Bad Seed”
- Molly Ingle Michie’s “A Splendid Day”
- John Halperin’s “Eminent Victorians and History”
- Stories by Nora Beloff, Francelia Butler, Molly Ingle Michie, and John Halperin
- Poetry by Mark Rudman, Stanley Moss, Chris Gilbert, and Phillis Levin
Volume 56, Number
2
- Michael Nelson’s “The White House, Bureaucracy, and Foreign Policy: Lessons From Cambodia”
- Richard T. Selden’s “An Economist Looks At the 80’s”
- Ralph E. Luker’s “Garry Wills and the New Debate Over the Declaration of Independence”
- Robert J. Brugger’s “The Mind of the Old South: New Views”
- Stories by Michael Nelson, Richard T. Selden, Ralph E. Luker, and Robert J. Brugger
- Poetry by Rita Dove, Cynthia Huntington, Jack Myers, and Keith Althaus
Volume 56, Number
1
- John Milton Cooper’s “World War I: European Origins and American Intervention”
- Douglas Day’s “Borges, Faulkner, and the Wild Palms”
- W. D. Ehrhart’s “Why I Did It”
- Richard R. Guzman’s “The Saint and the Sage: the Fiction of Raja Rao”
- Stories by John Milton Cooper, Douglas Day, W. D. Ehrhart, and Richard R. Guzman
- Poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca, Dara Wier, Richard Eberhart, and Franz Wright