Month: August 2016

Simple Rituals

By Dyan Sublett

From the Summer 1983 Issue

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Inexorable Progress

By Mary Hood

From the Summer 1983 Issue

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Mary Hood, 2014 inductee to the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, is the author of the novel Familiar Heat (1995) and the short-story collections And Venus Is Blue (1986) and How Far She Went (1984). A new collection of stories, A Clear View of the Southern Sky, is forthcoming from the University of South Carolina Press in 2015.

Carrying On

By Leonard Nathan

From the Summer 1983 Issue

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Dance Script with Electric Ballerina

By Alice Fulton

From the Summer 1983 Issue

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The Orbiting Self: Reentry Problems of the Transcending Self, or Why it is that Artists and Writers, Some Technologists, and indeed Most People have so much Trouble Living in the Ordinary World

By Walker Percy

From the Summer 1983 Issue

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Water Lilies, White Violets

By M.L. Rosenthal

From the Summer 1983 Issue

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Muted Music

By Robert Penn Warren

From the Summer 1983 Issue

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on How Courts Govern America by Richard Neely

By Milner S. Ball

From the Winter 1982 Issue

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on The Collected Screenplays of Bernard Shaw by Bernard F. Dukore

By Gerald Weales

From the Winter 1982 Issue

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Gerald Weales’s “American Theater Watch” appeared in these pages from 1978 until 2010, and we have also featured on occasion his essays and reviews on topics that have included World War II and the early-career political cartoons of one Theodore Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss). In addition to his distinguished career as an author and drama specialist, Weales was a longtime professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he retired in 1987; a senior Fulbright scholar at the University of Sri Lanka; and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.

Spring 2022

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

on Peach State by Adrienne Su

on Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness, edited by Anjanette...

on Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong

Mississippi Masala Revisited

on Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

on Virga by Shin Yu Pai

on Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

Spring 2022

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

on Peach State by Adrienne Su

on Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness, edited by Anjanette...

on Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong

Mississippi Masala Revisited

on Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

on Virga by Shin Yu Pai

on Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

Simple Rituals

Inexorable Progress

Carrying On

Dance Script with Electric Ballerina

The Orbiting Self: Reentry Problems of the Transcending Self, or Why it is that Artists and Writers, Some Technologists, and indeed Most People have so much Trouble Living in the Ordinary World

Water Lilies, White Violets

Muted Music

on How Courts Govern America by Richard Neely

on The Collected Screenplays of Bernard Shaw by Bernard F. Dukore

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