In this Issue

Table of Contents

This issue of the Sewanee Review is dedicated to the memory of Melvin Maddocks (1924-2008), essayist, critic, and gentleman of the press.

Drama

The Spirit in Me

William Hoffman
pp. 1-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0106
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Fiction

The Rat Hunt

D. N. Baldwin
pp. 38-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0110
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Poetry

City Voices and Scenes

B. H. Fairchild
pp. 55-59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0126
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Rounds

Len Krisak
pp. 60-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0127
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Talking With the Dead

Robert McDowell
pp. 62-63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0121
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Uphill all the Way

Wesley McNair
pp. 64-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0122
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Players at Play

Michael Mott
pp. 67-68
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0123
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Chaos and Harmony

Robert Phillips
pp. 69-72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0124
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Spying and Spinning

Gladys Swan
pp. 73-74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0125
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Essays

Friends Indeed

Earl Rovit
pp. 75-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0113
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Glimpse, Encounter, Acquaintance, Friendship

Richard Stern
pp. 95-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0116
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Styron, Ellison, and the Difficulties of Friendship

James L. W. West III
pp. 106-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0120
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Arts and Letters

God’s Apology

Sam Pickering
pp. 114-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0101
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Huxley in His Letters

William H. Pritchard
pp. 121-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0105
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From High Modernism to Middlebrow Culture

Warner Berthoff
pp. 125-128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0109
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The Difficulties of Being an Independent Intellectual

D. E. Richardson
pp. 130-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0112
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Narratives Masonic

R. S. Gwynn
pp. 134-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0115
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The State of Letters

Beyond Resignation

Elizabeth Moulton
pp. 141-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0118
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The End of Something

Hilary Masters
pp. 147-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0099
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Images in a Vast World: Homage to Stark Young (1881–1963)

Bert Cardullo
pp. 151-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0103
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Playgoing in Manhattan

Ed Minus
pp. 155-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0107
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Current Books in Review

Hunches, Itches, and Intimations

Stuart Wright
pp. iii-vi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0119
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The Egomaniac as Myth Maker

Benjamin Griffith
pp. vi-viii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0100
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Literary Panache and Texas Grit

Hilary Masters
pp. viii-x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0104
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Drinking and Writing in Paris in the Twenties and Thirties

Donald Schier
pp. x-xii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0108
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The History and Mystery of a Victorian Crime

Cushing Strout
pp. xii-xv
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0111
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The Case of the Missing Novelist: Amnesia or Conspiracy?

Cushing Strout
pp. xv-xviii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0114
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Dismembering the Experts

Myles Weber
pp. xviii-xx
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0117
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The Freshness of Wonder

Dawn Potter
pp. xx-xxii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0098
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Contributors

Contributors

pp. xxiii-xxiv
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.0.0102
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