Volume XXIV, Issue 1 – Fall 2018
FROM THE EDITOR
Unnatural Borders: ‘Belonging’ as Human Need and Contemporary Challenge
excellence in INTERDISCIPLINARY WRITING AWARD – 2018
America’s Poshlust Vacuum: The Young-Girl, Émigré, and Artist in Nabokov’s Lolita
Meg Cook, Reed College
excellence in CREATIVE WRITING AWARD – 2018
Bubo Virginianus
Audra Coleman, University of North Carolina Asheville
HUMAN VALUES—INSIGHTS, IMPLICATIONS, APPLICATIONS
When the Floodwaters Recede: Exposing the Line between Human-Made and Natural Disasters through Contemporary Mass Media and Southern African American Literary Narratives
Emilie Mears, Florida State University
NONFICTION
Against Bespoke Conformity: The Necessity of Adoption
Mathieu Debic, Southern Methodist University
NONFICTION
Looking for God and Finding Truth: The Way of Memory in Book X of The Confessions of St. Augustine
Ronald Jackson, Clayton State University
POETRY
Origami
Kelly Mogk, Southern Methodist University
NONFICTION
Beating against the Current: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Gatsby’s American Dream
David D. Jones, Rollins College
POETRY
Working-Class Triptych
Darren J. N. Middleton, Texas Christian University
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Betty Buehner: A Life Fulfilled
Jim Culley, University of Delaware
NONFICTION
Western Music, Cosmic Meaning, and the Great War
Charles A. O’Connor III, Georgetown University