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Submissions from 2023 2023

Vol. LX, No. 1: Steve Tomasula: Twenty-First Century Fiction as a Broken Hammer, Hanna Hadjadj

Vol. LX, No. 3: An XYZ Introduction to the Literary Works of Julián Ríos, Thomas McGonigle

Vol. LX, No. 4: Everyone, Everything: The Poetry of Marie Howe, Liz Rosenberg

Vol. LX, No. 2: Joel Oppenheimer The Ephus: Alpha Dog in the East Village, M.G. Stephens

Submissions from 2022 2022

Vol. LIX, No. 1: My Fever-Dream Reading of Jeanette Winterson as God's Own, Cathryn Hankla

Vol. LIX, No. 3: Thinking Gospodinov Thoughts, Thomas McGonigle

Vol. LIX, No. 5: Whitman Sisters: Hannah Whitman Heyde, Maire Mullins, Karen Karbiener, Jennifer Crandall, Howard Nelson

Vol. LIX, No. 4: Angela Carter and the Anthropological Imagination, William Repass

Vol. LIX, No. 2: Body and Soul, the Poetry of Yehoshua November, Liz Rosenberg

Submissions from 2021 2021

Vol. LVIII, No. 2: "That Which Is The Case" The Novels of Dashiell Hammett, R.H.W. Dillard

Vol. LVIII, No. 5: Geographies of Time and Space: Translating Christian Formoso, Terry Hermsen and Sydney Tammarine

Vol. LVIII, No. 3: Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book, Aram Saroyan

Vol. LVIII, No. 4: Representing the Whole World: The Prose of Lucy Sante, Henry Taylor

Submissions from 2020 2020

Vol. LVII, No. 2: Martha Treichler and the State of Poetry, Madeleine Gallo

Vol. LVII, No. 4: Troubles Within: How Anna Burns's Fiction Confronts Violence, Marissa Mazek

Vol. LVII, No. 1: Nothing Lasts Forever: The Work of László Krasznahorkai, Thomas McGonigle

Vol. LVII, No. 3: W.D. Ehrhart: A Poet of Fact and Witness, M.G. Stephens

Vol. LVII, No. 5: Even In This World: The Poetry of Robert Mezey, Henry Taylor

Submissions from 2019 2019

Vol. LVI, No. 2: Weaving Women's Voices: Jeanne Larsen's Poetry and Fiction, Marissa Mazek

Vol. LVI, No. 1: Truth and Facts: An Essay on Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson, Thomas McGonigle

Vol. LVI, No. 3: A Mentorship With Maxine, Lee Robinson

Vol. LVI, No. 5: Experiencing Experience in Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station and The Topeka School, Sydney Tammarine

Vol. LVI, No. 4: Depths and Altitudes: The Poetry of Robert Wrigley, Henry Taylor

Submissions from 2018 2018

Vol. LV, No. 1: An Art of the Heart: The Fiction of Neil Jordan, Kelly Cherry

Vol. LV, No. 4: The Heart and Soul of Robin MacArthur's Mountain, Kelly Cherry

Vol. LV, No. 3: Stars For a Dark World: The Poems of Jane Gentry, Lynnell Edwards

Vol. LV, No. 5: Schrödinger's Storyteller: The Work of Ruth Ozeki, Ellen Louise Ray

Vol. LV, No. 2: Rereading The Fifties, The Sixties, and The Seventies, Henry Taylor

Submissions from 2017 2017

Vol. LIV, No. 2: The Awful Fragility of Love: Helen Simonson's Sussex Novels, Amanda Cockrell

Vol. LIV, No. 5: S.S. Van Dine: Fragments and Divagations, R.H.W. Dillard

Vol. LIV, No. 4: Our Lineage of Damage: Anne Enright's Family Fictions, Marissa Mazek

Vol. LIV, No. 1: Susan Scarf Merrel: Recapturing the Essence of Shirley Jackson, James Robert Saunders

Vol. LIV, No. 3: Thomas McGonigle: A Lineage of Literary Intimidation, Daniel J. Tharp

Submissions from 2016 2016

Vol. LIII, No. 2: Appalachian Renaissance Woman: The Works of Wilma Dykeman, Casey Clabough

Vol. LIII, No. 3: The Hard Part Is Knowing What To Say: The Poetry of Jerry Mirskin, Howard Nelson

Vol. LIII, No. 4: The Ecstatic Vision of Sally Mann, Martha Park

Vol. LIII, No. 5: Frank Orsmby: A Legendary Poet, Liz Rosenberg

Vol. LIII, No. 1: The Disappearing Threshold: Claudia Emerson and the Poetry of Mourning, Allison Seay

Submissions from 2015 2015

Vol. LII, No. 4: The Drawbridge to the Plain Road: Elise Partridge's Poetry of Life and Death, Nicholas Birns

Vol. LII, No. 2: The Quick and the Dead: Deciphering Ralph Adamo's New Volume, Ever, Louis Gallo

Vol. LII, No. 3: James Alan McPherson and the Metaphor of Dance, James Robert Saunders

Vol. LII, No. 1: The Dogs of Literature Seymour Krim: Bottom Dog Part II, M.G. Stephens

Vol. LII, No. 5: "Like Farmers Drilling For Water": A Landscape of Ron Rash's Fiction, Jerry Wayne Wells

Submissions from 2014 2014

Vol. LI, No. 4: The Best Appalachian Writer You Likely Never Heard Tell Of: Naton Leslie (1957-2013), Casey Clabough

Vol. LI, No. 1: "Poetry saves lives!" The Art of Ruth Stone, Liz Rosenberg

Vol. LI, No. 3: Ellen Bryant Voigt: Preserving the Rural Landscape, James Robert Saunders

Vol. LI, No. 2: "A Morbid Longing for the Picturesque": The Novels of Donna Tartt, James Shell

Vol. LI, No. 5: The Dogs of Literature Seymour Krim: Bottom Dog Part I, M.G. Stephens

Submissions from 2013 2013

Vol. L, No. 5: Lance Olsen: The Art of the New, Kelly Cherry

Vol. L, No. 1: Jamaica Kincaid: The Long Road from Antigua to Vermont, James Robert Saunders

Vol. L, No. 2: The Music of What Happened: Michael Parker and the Narrative of Desire, Alison Seay

Vol. L, No. 3: Journeys to and from the Page: Carl Carmer's Stars Fell on Alabama, Duffie Taylor

Vol. L, No. 4: Survival of the Feminist: The Socially Lived Poetics of Denis Duhamel, Julie Marie Wade

Submissions from 2012 2012

Vol. XLIX, No. 3: On the Poetry of Oliver Reynolds, Angela Ball

Vol. XLIX, No. 2: The Worcestershire Grumbler: The Writings of James Lees-Milne, Diarist and Man of Letters, Nicholas Birns

Vol. XLIX, No. 5: The Gothic Heart of Peter Straub's World, Rhonda Brock-Servais

Vol. XLIX, No. 4: Quick-Change Artist: The Merry-Go-Sorry Fiction of Cary Holladay, Casey Clabough

Vol. XLIX, No. 1: Do You Believe in Magic? The Novels of Lev Grossman, Robbi Nester

Submissions from 2011 2011

Vol. XLVIII, No. 4: Gibbons Ruark: The Art of Transparency, Kelly Cherry

Vol. XLVIII, No. 3: Invisible Wren: The Poems of Larry Levis, Julia Johnson

Vol. XLVIII, No. 1: "A Sudden Happiness": The Poetry of Deborah Warren, Alfred Nicol

LVIII, No. 1: The Happiness Machines of César Aira, William Repass

Vol. XLVIII, No. 5: Hal Sirowitz: The Stand-up Poet King of Queens, Liz Rosenberg

Vol. XLVIII, No. 2: Robert Mezey: The Curve of His Return, Lewis Turco

Submissions from 2010 2010

Vol. XLVII, No. 3: Here, There, Where: The Shifting Nature of David Huddle's Appalachia, Casey Clabough

Vol. XLVII, No. 5: Cecilia Woloch: "Dreaming The Long Carpathian Dreams", Lynnell Edwards

Vol. XLVII, No. 4: Howard Frank Mosher: Immortalizing the Northeast Kingdom, James Robert Saunders

Vol. XLVII, No. 1: Carrie Brown's Fiction: Always Compassionate, Always Surprising, Mariflo Stephens

Vol. XLVII, No. 2: A Forest of Forms: The Poetry of Susan Stewart, Lisa Williams

Submissions from 2009 2009

Vol. XLVI, No. 1: Hanging onto Place: The Self-Reflexive depths of Kelly Cherry's Fiction, Casey Clabough

Vol. XLVI, No. 5: Jason Shinder's Work: The Poet Laureate Of Loneliness, Liz Rosenberg

Vol. XLVI, No. 4: Dara Wier's Batture of the Self, Jordan Sanderson

Vol. XLVI, No. 2: Nevertheless There: Christine Garren's Invisible Form, Allison Scay

Vol. XLVI, No. 3: Reminiscences of Donald Hall, Lewis Turco

Submissions from 2008 2008

Vol. XLV, No. 4: Scientists and Searchers: The Fiction of Sylvia Engdahl, Nicholas Birns

Vol. XLV, No. 3: The Life of a Poet: John Engels, for Example, David Huddle

Vol. XLV, No. 5: After Jane Hirshfield's After, Jeanne Larsen

Vol. XLV, No. 2: "That was Czgowchwz, her story, history:" The Fictions of James McCourt, David Rollow

Vol. XLV, No. 1: Milton Kessler: To Sing Was the Only Way Through, Liz Rosenberg

Submissions from 2007 2007

Vol. XLIV, No. 5: Beautiful Lamptown: The Writings of Dawn Powell, Nicholas Birns

Vol. XLIV, No. 5: Beautiful Lamptown: The Writings of Dawn Powell, Nicholas Birns

Vol. XLIV, No. 3: A World of Irony in the Fiction of Edward P. Jones, James Robert Saunders

Vol. XLIV, No. 1: Textual Healing: Giving Voice to Historical and Personal Experience in the Collective Works of Edwidge Danticat, Denise R. Shaw

Vol. XLIV, No. 4: Think Your Way to Feeling: The Principal Writings of William Steinkraus, Henry Taylor

Vol. XLIV, No. 2: Traveling: The Poetry of Sarah Arvio, Lisa Williams

Submissions from 2006 2006

Vol. XLIII, No. 5: "Out of Space, Out of Time": The Virginia Novels of Julian Green, Casey Clabough

Vol. XLIII, No. 1: Where the Falling Angel Meets the Rising Ape: Terry Pratchett's Discword, Amanda Cockrell

Vol. XLIII, No. 2: "Separation's Geography": Agha Shahid Ali's Scholarship of Evanescene, Amy Newman

Vol. XLIII, No. 3: The Virtually Unknown Poetry of Harcourt Mountain, Henry Taylor

Vol. XLIII, No. 4: Vern Rutsala's Surreal World, Lewis Turco

Submissions from 2005 2005

Vol. XLII, No. 4: Novelist of Shreds and Patches: The Fiction of David Markson, Peter Dempsey

Vol. XLII, No. 5: Hooray for Hollywood, George Garrett

Vol. XLII, No. 2: The Publishing Legacy of Leslie E. Phillabaum, Henry Taylor

Vol. XLII, No. 3: Oswego Poems and Poets: Murabito and Davis, Lewis Turco

Vol. XLII, No. 1: Momentous Bodies: The Poetry of Larissa Szporluk, Lisa Williams

Submissions from 2004 2004

Vol. XLI, No. 5: Voices: Hugh Nissenson, Michelle Ann Abate

Vol. XLI, No. 2: "Bivouacked Between Worlds": The Poetry of James Tate, Anthony Caleshu

Vol. XLI, No. 1: Full-Tilt Boogie: Lee Smith's Girls, Amanda Cockrell

Vol. XLI, No. 3: "The Writer's Almanac" & Good Poems: Garrison Keillor's Services to Poetry, Howard Nelson

Vol. XLI, No. 4: In the Star-Warm Dusk: The Poems of George Johnston, Robyn Sarah