Autumn 1999
Volume 75, Number 4
- Harold H. Kolb’s “Border Collie”
- Sanford Pinsker’s “Walt Whitman and Our Multicultural America”
- Pat C. Hoy II’s “Homage to Vietnam”
- J. A. S. Evans’s “Greek Letter”
- Stories by Harold H. Kolb, Sanford Pinsker, Pat C. Hoy II, and J. A. S. Evans
- Poetry by Kirk Robinson, Jennifer Militello, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, and Mark Cunningham
Summer 1999
Volume 75, Number 3
- Philip Gould’s “My Clandestine Career”
- Raymond Nelson’s “Harlem Gallery: An Advertisement and User’s Manual”
- Jane Demouy’s “Elegy for Katherine Anne”
- Philip D. Beidler’s “Ted Turner et al. at Gettysburg; or, Re-Enactors in the Attic”
- Stories by Philip Gould, Raymond Nelson, Jane Demouy, and Philip D. Beidler
- Poetry by Saigyo, Charles Harper Webb, R. D. Skillings, and Peter Henry
Spring 1999
Volume 75, Number 2
- John Smolens’s “In the Desert”
- Richard O’Mara’s “The Jesuit Republic of South America”
- David Kirby’s “What is a Book?”
- Jeffrey Meyers’s “The Hemingways: An American Tragedy”
- Stories by John Smolens, Richard O’Mara, David Kirby, and Jeffrey Meyers
- Poetry by Martha Ostheimer, Nicole Pekarske, Mary Oliver, and Paul Breslin
Winter 1999
Volume 75, Number 1
- Peter Bridges’s “The Polymath From Vermont”
- Cecil C. H. Cullander’s “Why Thomas Mann Wrote”
- Jeffrey Meyers’s “Family Memoirs of Thomas Mann”
- Emily Auerbach’s “ ‘A Barkeeper Entering the Kingdom of Heaven’: Did Mark Twain Really Hate Jane Austen?”
- Stories by PETER BRIDGES, Cecil C. H. Cullander, Jeffrey Meyers, and Emily Auerbach
- Poetry by Stephen Dobyns, Susan Maurer, Dennis Sampson, and Jacquelyn Pope
Autumn 1998
Volume 74, Number 4
- John McNeel’s “On the Fedala Road”
- David H. Lynn’s “Monkeys, Firecrackers, and Dust”
- Louis B. Zimmer’s “Jacques Et Francois: Derrida vs. Voltaire”
- Howard P. Segal’s “Technology, History, and Culture: An Appreciation of Melvin Kranzberg”
- Stories by John McNeel, David H. Lynn, Louis B. Zimmer, and Howard P. Segal
- Poetry by Robert Morgan, Dennis Sampson, Chana Bloch, and Peter Cooley
Summer 1998
Volume 74, Number 3
- Robert Erwin’s “Tax Aversion”
- Jeffrey Meyers’s “Gonzo Ginsberg and Moby Dickey: A Memoir”
- Charles East’s “Oxford-In-Yoknapatawpha”
- Sanford Pinsker’s “Stanley Crouch, Our Black American Mencken”
- Stories by Robert Erwin, Jeffrey Meyers, Charles East, and Sanford Pinsker
- Poetry by Victor Lodato, Marjorie Woodbury, Dana Roeser, and T. Alan Broughton
Spring 1998
Volume 74, Number 2
- Robert Mason’s “Surviving the Blue Killer, 1918”
- George Watson’s “How to Be An Angel”
- Helen Barolini’s “The Shadowy Lady of the Street of Dark Shops”
- Morris Freedman’s “From Hellenism to Hebraism, the Essay In Our Time: Gore Vidal and Irving Kristol”
- Stories by Robert Mason, George Watson, Helen Barolini, and Morris Freedman
- Poetry by Lisa Williams, David Wagoner, Ruth Anderson Barnett, and Len Roberts
Winter 1998
Volume 74, Number 1
• Leonard Kriegel’s “Wonder Woman In the Land of Good and Plenty: Big Winners and Little Losers”
• Leslie W. Dunbar’s “The Final New South?”
• William Palmer’s “Sir Richard Southern Looks Back: A Portrait of the Medievalist as a Young Man”
• Merrill Peterson’s “My Six Weeks In the Peace Corps: An Armenian Adventure”
• Stories by Leonard Kriegel, Leslie W. Dunbar, William Palmer, and Merrill Peterson
• Poetry by Catherine Sasanov, Mary Helen Detmer, John Donoghue, and Eamon Grennan
Autumn 1997
Volume 73, Number 4
- G. Edward White’s “The Last Train From Victoria Falls”
- Peter Harris’s “Poetry Chronicle: Difficult and Otherwise: New Work By Ruefle, Young, and Aleshire”
- George Watson’s “The Birth of Jeeves”
- William Berry’s “Personal Politics: American Autobiography”
- Stories by G. Edward White, Peter Harris, George Watson, and William Berry
- Poetry by Charles Harper Webb, Pat Mangan, John Skoyles, and D. Nurkse
Summer 1997
Volume 73, Number 3
- Carol Ascher’s “Der Rechte Weg”
- Peter Bridges’s “Prince Albert and King Lothar”
- Abe Kriegel’s “Up for Grabs”
- Sanford Pinsker’s “Reading Faces/Reading Culture, Or How I Brooded About Three Writerly Photographs”
- Stories by Carol Ascher, Peter Bridges, Abe Kriegel, and Sanford Pinsker
- Poetry by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Cushman, Janet Sylvester, and David Bottoms
Spring 1997
Volume 73, Number 2
- R. E. Nelson’s “Reunion”
- David Wyatt’s “The Last Spring At Yale”
- Richard O’Mara’s “Jaguar”
- Anthony Winner’s “On the Valuing of Narratives”
- Stories by R. E. Nelson, David Wyatt, Richard O’Mara, and Anthony Winner
- Poetry by Mark Halliday, Ronald Wallace, David Ignatow, and John Lane
Winter 1997
Volume 73, Number 1
- W. D. Ehrhart’s “ ‘What Grace is Found in So Much Loss?’”
- Sanford Pinsker’s “Musing About Orwell’s ‘Politics and The English Language’—50 Years Later”
- Morris Freedman’s “The Fall of Charlie Van Doren”
- Rawdon Dalrymple’s “Continental Drift: The Case of Australia”
- Stories by W. D. Ehrhart, Sanford Pinsker, Morris Freedman, and Rawdon Dalrymple
- Poetry by Charles Wright, Jane Shore, Larry Levis, and Larissa Szporluk
Autumn 1996
Volume 72, Number 4
- John Taylor’s “Taking the Odium Out of Sodium”
- Leonard Kriegel’s “New York Losers-And Winners”
- Brad Barkley’s “Escaping”
- Sanford Pinsker’s “Albert Murray: the Black Intellectuals’ Maverick Patriarch”
- Stories by John Taylor, Leonard Kriegel, Brad Barkley, and Sanford Pinsker
- Poetry by Mary Winifred Hood, Susan Imhof, Sam Witt, and Edward Kleinschmidt
Summer 1996
Volume 72, Number 3
- Patricia Foster’s “Outside the Hive: A Meditation on Childlessness”
- Robert Erwin’s “Injuns”
- Stephen Minot’s “An Open Letter to Christians, Both Born and Reborn: An Informal Essay”
- Jeffrey Meyers’s “Bogart and Hemingway”
- Stories by Patricia Foster, Robert Erwin, Stephen Minot, and Jeffrey Meyers
- Poetry by Ira Sadoff, Peter Cooley, Marcia Southwick, and Don Barkin
Spring 1996
Volume 72, Number 2
- Jeanne Schinto’s “The Lover of Libraries”
- Lionel Basney’s “Mia California: An Opera Journal”
- Richard O’Mara’s “Obsolescence, the Death of Newspapers, and All That”
- J. A. S. Evans’s “The Present State of Canada”
- Stories by Jeanne Schinto, Lionel Basney, Richard O’Mara, and J. A. S. Evans
- Poetry by Jon Loomis, Marianne Boruch, Patricia Dobler, and Elena Karina Byrne
Winter 1996
Volume 72, Number 1
- David Kirby’s “What Is A Writer?”
- Tucker Carrington’s “The Grammar of Hard Facts: Joseph Mitchell’s Up In the Old Hotel”
- Sanford Pinsker’s “He Had A Dream, and It Shot Him: What Happened to Visions of Racial Harmony, and Why”
- Francis Leary’s “Robespierre: the Meaning of Virtue”
- Stories by David Kirby, Tucker Carrington, Sanford Pinsker, and Francis Leary
- Poetry by Charles Simic, Albert Goldbarth, Stephen Dobyns, and Mark Svenvold
Autumn 1995
Volume 71, Number 4
- Hilary Masters’s “Connections”
- Thomas Russell’s “The Age of Sanity”
- Peter Harris’s “Varieties of Religious Experience: New Work By Galway Kinnell, Jane Hirshfield, and Rodney Jones”
- Joseph Hynes’s “Tom Stoppard’s Lighted March”
- Stories by Hilary Masters, Thomas Russell, Peter Harris, and Joseph Hynes
- Poetry by Dave Smith, Sydney Lea, Stanley Marcus, and Stan Sanvel Rubin
Summer 1995
Volume 71, Number 3
- Steven G. Kellman’s “Food Fights in Iowa: The Vegetarian Stranger in Recent Midwest Fiction”
- Alexander Burnham’s “Okinawa, Harry Truman, and the Atomic Bomb”
- Bruce Fleming’s “Intimations of India”
- Abe Kriegel’s “Out of Context: A New York Jew in the New South”
- Stories by Steven G. Kellman, Alexander Burnham, Bruce Fleming, and Abe Kriegel
- Poetry by James Wood, Frances Mayes, Susan Davis, and Alan Williamson
Spring 1995
Volume 71, Number 2
- Booton Herndon’s “Corpses Thawing In Springtime: the Bulge Revisited”
- Morris Freedman’s “How Dead Is Poetry?”
- Paul Barolsky’s “Fables of Art”
- Jack R. Fischel’s “The New Anti-Semitic Axis: Holocaust Denial, Black Nationalism, and the Crisis on Our College Campuses”
- Stories by Booton Herndon, Morris Freedman, Paul Barolsky, and Jack R. Fischel
- Poetry by Robert Hill Long, D. S. Burnham, Lisa Gade, and Elizabeth W. Holden
Winter 1995
Volume 71, Number 1
- Charles Maechling Jr.’s “The Next Century—Can the Free Market Panacea Survice?”
- Leonard Kriegel’s “Boundaries of Freedom: Liberals, Patriotism, and Melting Pots”
- Hardy C. Wilcoxon’s “Vignettes of Vietnam”
- Richard Tillinghast’s “Robert Lowell on Native Ground”
- Stories by Charles Maechling Jr., Leonard Kriegel, Hardy C. Wilcoxon, and Richard Tillinghast
- Poetry by Mary Oliver, Linda Pastan, Renate Wood, and Dorothy Mosel Sutton
Autumn 1994
Volume 70, Number 4
- Booton Herndon’s “Paris Was Yesterday”
- John Egerton’s “The Pre-Brown South”
- Russell Fraser’s “Proserpine’s Island”
- Stories by Booton Herndon, John Egerton, and Russell Fraser
- Poetry by Michael Jay McClure, Natasha Saje, Jane Hilberry, and Adele Slaughter
Summer 1994
Volume 70, Number 3
- Sydney Lea’s “Mercy on Beeson’s Partridge”
- Morris Freedman’s “The Persistence of Plagiarism, the Riddle of Originality”
- Helen Barolini’s “The Italian Side of Emily Dickinson”
- Kenneth W. Thompson’s “John F. Kennedy and Revisionism”
- Stories by Sydney Lea, Morris Freedman, Helen Barolini, and Kenneth W. Thompson
- Poetry by Steve Kronen, Dave Smith, Michael Mott, and Elizabeth Dodd
Spring 1994
Volume 70, Number 2
- Simone Poirier-Bures’s “Return”
- Samuel Pickering’s “Early Spring”
- Hans A. Schmitt’s “More, Not Less, History!”
- Abe Kriegel’s “A Prayer for My Daughter”
- Stories by Simone Poirier-Bures, Samuel Pickering, Hans A. Schmitt, and Abe Kriegel
- Poetry by Jack Gilbert, Kevin Boyle, Lynn Doyle, and Conrad Hilberry
Winter 1994
Volume 70, Number 1
- Louis D. Rubin’s “Did Churchill Ruin ‘The Great Work of Time’? Thoughts on the New British Revisionism”
- Robert Olen Butler’s “The Handwriting on the Wall”
- Hunt Janin’s “The Post-Information Society”
- Leonard Kriegel’s “Beaches In Winter”
- Stories by Louis D. Rubin, Robert Olen Butler, Hunt Janin, and Leonard Kriegel
- Poetry by Lisa Russ Spaar, Lawrence Raab, Carol Frost, and T. Alan Broughton
Autumn 1993
Volume 69, Number 4
- Christopher Clausen’s “Jack-In-The-Pulpit”
- Burling Lowrey’s “The Timelessness of Stephen Potter’s Gamesmanship”
- Julia Whitty’s “The Daguerreotype”
- Peter Harris’s “Poetry Chronicle An Extravagant Three: New Poetry By Mitchell, Hoagland, and Gallagher”
- Stories by Christopher Clausen, Burling Lowrey, Julia Whitty, and Peter Harris
- Poetry by Donald Platt, Ken Dola, T. Alan Broughton, and Len Roberts
Summer 1993
Volume 69, Number 3
- Richard Stern’s “Janet Lewis”
- Harold B. Mcsween’s “Huey Long At His Centenary”
- Francis Leary’s “Beau Law and Mississippi High-Rollers”
- John W. Stevenson’s “Poetry As Prescription for the World’s Body”
- Stories by Richard Stern, Harold B. Mcsween, Francis Leary, and John W. Stevenson
- Poetry by Mekeel McBride, Debra Nystrom, Mary Leader, and Connie Wanek
Spring 1993
Volume 69, Number 2
- Sarah Hardison O’Connor’s “Exiled: A Memoir of O. B. Hardison, Jr.”
- Henry Taylor’s “A Few Lessons From Horses”
- David T. Gies’s “Spain 1992: Notes From A Survivor”
- Louis D. Rubin’s “The Left-Handed Glove (A Memory)”
- Stories by Sarah Hardison O’Connor, Henry Taylor, David T. Gies, and Louis D. Rubin
- Poetry by John McKernan, Marianne Boruch, Dabney Stuart, and William Stafford
Winter 1993
Volume 69, Number 1
- Peter Shaw’s “Cutting A Classic Down to Size”
- David K. Dunaway’s “No Credit Given: The Underground Literature of Bob Dylan”
- William F. Ryan’s “The Techno-Thriller”
- Irby B. Cauthen’s “Family Voices”
- Stories by Peter Shaw, David K. Dunaway, William F. Ryan, and Irby B. Cauthen
- Poetry by Tony Crunk, Beth Stahlecker, Susan Hahn, and Joy Manesiotis
Autumn 1992
Volume 68, Number 4
- John Bovey’s “The Hand of Fat’ma”
- Bettina Drew’s “Bradford Market”
- Joseph Hynes’s “Pinter and Morality”
- Jeffrey Meyers’s “Splendors and Miseries of Literary Biography”
- Stories by John Bovey, Bettina Drew, Joseph Hynes, and Jeffrey Meyers
- Poetry by Debra Kaufman, Martha Rhodes, Jane Kenyon, and Connie Wanek
Summer 1992
Volume 68, Number 3
- Frances Mayes’s “The Walking Rain”
- Patricia Rowe Willrich’s “Watching Through Windows: A Perspective on Anne Tyler”
- Louis D. Rubin’s “The Passionate Poet and the Use of Criticism”
- James A. Nathan’s “A New World Order? Policy Or Platitude”
- Stories by Frances Mayes, Patricia Rowe Willrich, Louis D. Rubin, and James A. Nathan
- Poetry by Ellen Bryant Voigt, Stanley Plumly, Dionisio D. Martinez, and Jeannine Savard
Spring 1992
Volume 68, Number 2
- Bruce Fleming’s “On the Unity of the ‘I’ ”
- Arthur A. Bardos’s “Reunion In Budapest”
- Peter Makuck’s “Chappell’s Continuities: First and Last Words”
- Walter Harding’s “The Adventures of A Literary Detective In Search of Thoreau”
- Stories by Bruce Fleming, Arthur A. Bardos, Peter Makuck, and Walter Harding
- Poetry by Albert Goldbarth, Kenneth Rosen, David Lehman, and Russell Bahorsky
Winter 1992
Volume 68, Number 1
- Bernice Grohskopf’s “Moscow Kitchens, Moscow Nights”
- Robert Zaretsky’s “It’s Still All Greek to Us: on the Timelessness of Thucydides”
- Constance Curry’s “ ‘Silver Rights’: One Family’s Struggle for Justice in America”
- Pat C. Hoy’s “Imagining Lives of Our Own”
- Stories by Bernice Grohskopf, Robert Zaretsky, Constance Curry, and Pat C. Hoy
- Poetry by Mary Hower, J. C. Ellefson, Bethany Pray, and David Ignatow
Autumn 1991
Volume 67, Number 4
- Samuel Pickering’s “Speakeasy”
- Morris Freedman’s “John Milton and the King of Poland”
- Francis Leary’s “ ‘Tayo! Tayo!’ in Nouvelle-Cyth?”
- George Greene’s “Elizabeth Bowen: the Sleuth Who Bugged Tea Cups”
- Stories by Samuel Pickering, Morris Freedman, Francis Leary, and George Greene
- Poetry by William Matthews, Charlie Smith, Michael McFee, and Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Summer 1991
Volume 67, Number 3
- David H. Lynn’s “Telling Irony: Peter Taylor’s Later Stories”
- Peter Harris’s “Hunger, Hope, and Nurture: Poetry From Michael Ryan, the Chinese Democracy Movement, and Maxine Kumi”
- John T. Irwin’s “The Journey to the South: Poe, Borges, and Faulkner”
- Sanford Pinsker’s “William Faulkner and My Middle East Problem”
- Stories by David H. Lynn, Peter Harris, John T. Irwin, and Sanford Pinsker
- Poetry by Mary Oliver, Peter Cooley, Elizabeth Dodd, and Terese Svoboda
Spring 1991
Volume 67, Number 2
- Susan M. Schultz’s “Houses of Poetry After Ashbery: the Poetry of Ann Lauterbach and Donald Revell”
- Patricia Rowe Willrich’s “A Perspective on Wallace Stegner”
- Louis D. Rubin’s “W.J. Cash After Fifty Years”
- David Mayers’s “Diplomacy and the Politics of Amelioration: the Thought of George Kennan”
- Stories by Susan M. Schultz, Patricia Rowe Willrich, Louis D. Rubin, and David Mayers
- Poetry by Nancy J. Brandwein, Len Roberts, Michael Lauchlan, and Sandra Nelson
Winter 1991
Volume 67, Number 1
- Kelly Cherry’s “Justice”
- James Axtell’s “The Making of A Scholar-Athlete”
- Eugene Nassar’s “Symbols and Texts: A Personal Sketch of Literary Criticism Since the Fifties”
- Sydney Lea’s “A Winter Grouse”
- Stories by Kelly Cherry, James Axtell, Eugene Nassar, and Sydney Lea
- Poetry by Stephen Dunn, Cara Chamberlain, Wes Ryan, and Judy Longley
Autumn 1990
Volume 66, Number 4
- John A. Glusman’s “Heroes and Sons: Coming to Terms”
- Greg Johnson’s “ ‘On the Edge of an Abyss’: The Writer as Insomniac”
- George Watson’s “Shakespeare and the Norman Conquest: English in the Elizabethan Theatre”
- Bernice Grohskopf’s ““I’ll Be a Farmer”: Boyhood Letters of William James”
- Stories by John A. Glusman, Greg Johnson, George Watson, and Bernice Grohskopf
- Poetry by Jane Brox, Angela Ball, Victor M. Depta, and Kenneth Rosen
Summer 1990
Volume 66, Number 3
- Fenton Johnson’s “Catholic In the South: Confessions of A Convert’s Son”
- Edwin M. Yoder’s “The Princess Casamassima Revisited”
- Roy Macridis’s “The ‘Other Side’ of Jacobinism”
- Peter Harris’s “Forty Years of Richard Wilbur: the Loving Work of An Equilibrist”
- Stories by Fenton Johnson, Edwin M. Yoder, Roy Macridis, and Peter Harris
- Poetry by John Engman, Marisa De Los Santos, Robert Schultz, and William Stafford
Spring 1990
Volume 66, Number 2
- Sal Woelfel’s “The Duckling Essays”
- Howell Raines’s “The ‘Strange Country’ ”
- Jeffrey Meyers’s “The Quest for D.H. Lawrence”
- Henry Taylor’s “The Fun of the End of the World: David R. Slavitt’s Poems”
- Stories by Sal Woelfel, Howell Raines, Jeffrey Meyers, and Henry Taylor
- Poetry by Donald Hall, Henry Hart, Stephen Dobyns, and Mark Halliday
Winter 1990
Volume 66, Number 1
- Florence Chanock Cohen’s “Layla: An Israeli Parable”
- Louis D. Rubin’s “From Combray to Ithaca; Or, the ‘Southernness’ of Southern Literature”
- Gaines M. Foster’s “Coming to Terms With Defeat: Post-Vietnam America and the Post-Civil War South”
- Piri Halasz’s “Growing Up Progressive”
- Stories by Florence Chanock Cohen, Louis D. Rubin, Gaines M. Foster, and Piri Halasz
- Poetry by Richard Dankleff, Alan Williamson, Carl Dennis, and Roger Fanning