• Against Stoicism

    Anna Lena Phillips Bell

    Fall 2019

    An itch, untouched,
    will twitch and wail

    till an answering scratch
    unhitches hell.

    A tempered squeal
    can conjure oil.

    Anna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize. Her poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Quarterly West, the Arkansas International, and the Southern Review.

    Read More

    Cass and Charlene

    Ann Beattie

    We (Cass’s former students, friends, past and present neighbors, and respected adversaries) had been invited to gather in Connecticut for the seventy-seventh birthday of Casswell Duncan Damaris by his wife, Charlene Andresson. (It’s important that a woman retain her maiden name, even if the concept of “the maiden” has been tainted by simple-minded people who’ve invented nonsense about the symbolism of unicorns and the plights of dashing knights).

    Scenes From A Marriage

    Hannah Pittard

    In the painful days that followed the discovery of my husband’s affair, the woman’s question refused to go away. Soon it brought to mind a more distressing one: Had I written my novel in search of the truth about a particular fictional marriage, or as a means of escaping the deteriorating state of my own?

    Foreign Bodies

    Lily Davenport

    There aren’t many surface similarities between Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts and Octavia Butler’s Fledgling—the former blends critical theory and personal history to chronicle Nelson’s marriage to Harry Dodge, her gender-fluid partner, while the latter is a speculative-fiction take on vampire lore. However, they complement one another in startling ways. Both books upend traditional familial structures, and explore the visceral strangeness of the human body.

    Merch

    Love The Sewanee Review? Shop our new merch!

    Contact

    The Sewanee Review
    735 University Avenue
    Sewanee, Tennessee 37383 USA
    931-598-1185
    sewaneereview@sewanee.edu

    Subscribe

    To enjoy The Sewanee Review in print and on your computer or mobile device, subscribe today.

    Already a member? Login

    © 2022 The University of the South

    Back to top
    Web Design and Development by Riverworks Marketing