• The Sewanee Conglomerate

    Named for the uppermost rock formation in Sewanee's corner of the Cumberland Plateau, the Sewanee Conglomerate is the magazine's blog. Check here for short pieces about books and current events written by SR staff and guest contributors.

    January 2025

    Point of view is a pact with the reader, not a rug to pull out from under them.

    January 2025

    Through memory and imagination, the narrator reconstructs the intertwined lives of Wilson and Smith and the brutal way an affair detonates their families, uprooting the life of his young friend as collateral damage.

    January 2025

    The lines describing the hole land with unsettling force, assigning to the landscape a kind of willful malevolence that is all the more frightening for being unexplained.

    December 2024

    These six fresh reads, handpicked by our staff, might be enjoyed by a warm hearth—or tucked into the stocking of someone you love.

    December 2024

    If I were to draw up a list of my twenty favorite stanzas, at least five of these would come from Seamus Heaney’s “Oysters.”

    December 2024

    Girmay’s words, though devastating, provided the comfort I needed.

    December 2024

    At least in our club, after a lifetime of hushed whispers, I knew what happened to gay adults.

    September 2024

    Another Country might be slotted into the category of social realism, but here, a rupture of genre occurs.

    September 2024

    Who among us is still learning the language of erotica? Its palpitations and cadences?

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