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Anniversary Issues

The Antioch Review, 1941-1991:

The Survival of the Imagination
50th Anniversary Issue

 Listed below is the table of contents for our 50th anniversary issue
published in the Spring of 1992.

This collection is a sampler of our publishing history.

 

The First Decade: 1941-1950
  
Editorial, Inaugural Issue 13  
Philosophy and Social Change 15 George R. Geiger
Homecoming 28 Jessie Treichler
The Color of America 46 Carey McWilliams
Richard Wright's Blues 61 Ralph Ellison
Little Magazine What Now? 75 Paul Bixler
     
The Second Decade: 1951-1960
    
Some Observations on Changes in Leisure Attitudes 91 David Reisman
Crime as an American Way of Life 109 Daniel Bell
Letter to the Capitol 131 Philip Levine
The Man They Threw Out of Jets 132 Bruce Jay Friedman
A New Life 141 Nolan Miller
Black Rook in Rainy Weather 150 Sylvia Plath
My Friend, My Friend 152 Anne Sexton
     
The Third Decade: 1961-1970
    
Those Who Have Burned 155 William Dickey
Cheever's Yankee Heritage 156 Cynthia Ozick
Dances at Banstead 162 Mary Oliver
A Happy Family 163 William Trevor
Mediations 176 James Aronson
A Testament 190 Robert Creeley
G.S. Reading Poesy at Princeton 192 Allen Ginsberg
Joie de Vivre 193 Denise Levertov
For the Student Strikers 194 Richard Wilbur
     
The Fourth Decade: 1971-1980
    
The Route 197 Joy Williams
Killing the Angel in the House:
The Autonomy of Women Writers		 207 Elaine Showalter
Common Sense as a Cultural System 221 Clifford Geertz
Doughnut 242 Annie Dillard
Short Papa 246 James Purdy
A Sense of Things 254 David St. John
Murder 255 Mary Gordon
The New Female Literary Culture 260 Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
     
The Fifth Decade: 1981-1990
    
Shooting Whales 285 Mark Strand
The Persistence of Diversity 288 Andrew M. Greeley
Though His Name Is Infinite, My Father Is Asleep 302 Larry Levis
The Compartment 305 Raymond Carver
For Jeromé--With Love and Kisses 314 Gordon Lish
In Modern Dress 352 Craig Raine
It 354 Howard Moss
Rupert Beersley and the Beggar Master
of Sivani-Hoota		 355 T. Coraghessan Boyle
Ancient Airs, Voices 372 Joyce Carol Oates
Paracelsus and the Rose 395 Jorge Luis Borges
The Color Purple as Everybody's Protest Art 399 Gerald Early
Seawind: A Song 413 Donald Justice
The Flowers of Boredom 414 Rick DeMarinis
The Peking Express: Train Number 16 424 Paul Theroux
History 444 Jorie Graham

This issue is out of stock and no longer available for sale.

 

60th Anniversary Issue

Sowing Words for Sixty Years

picture of 60th Anniv. Issue

A 400 page anthology celebrating "the best words in the best order" from the past ten years (1991-2001)

FICTION by  

Aimee Bender
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Peter Ho Davies
Rick DeMarinis
Ha Jin
Peter LaSalle
Patricia Lear
Gordon Lish
Edith Pearlman
James Purdy
Ishmael Reed
Richard Stern
Lily Tuck 		 "What You Left in the Ditch" 
"Fondue" 
"The Ugliest House in the World " 
"Borrowed Hearts" 
"Saboteur" 
"The Admissions Officer " 
"After Memphis"  
"Squeak in the Sycamore"  
"Chance"  
"Brawith"  
"The C above C above High C"  
"Downsized" 
"Gold Leaf"

 

ESSAYS by

Sven Birkerts  
James Campbell
Alan Cheuse  
Robert Fogarty
Clifford Geertz
S. J. D. Green  
Jeffrey Hammond
Daniel Harris  
Bruce Jackson  
Bret Lott  
Robyn Sarah  
Lore Segal  
Sallie Tisdale  
Michael Wood		 "The Fate of the Book"  
"Kerouac's Blues"  
"Writing It Down for James"
"On the Up-Bounce"
"Geiger at Antioch"
"Closing of the American Mind"
"Milton at the Bat"
"Personals"
"Stories People Tell"
"Brothers"
"Nine Days"
"The Uses of Story: Jane Austen on Our Unwillingness... "
"Big Ideas"  
"Blue in Green"

 

POETRY by

Jon Anderson, Cal Bedient, James Cummins, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Jennifer Michael Hecht, David Lehman, Mark Levine, Adrian Louis, Shara McCallum, Jane Mead, Leslie Adrienne Miller, W. S. Merwin, Jacqueline Osherow, Carl Phillips, JoAnna Rawson, Katrina Roberts, Gary Short, 'Annah Sobelman, Wislawa Szymborska, Alexander Theroux, Marina Tsvetaeva, Arthur Vogelsang, and Susan Yuzna.

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