The Journal
Current Issue:
Number 22 — 2023
The Historic New Orleans Collection 2023
softcover • 6" x 9" • 132 pp.
6
color images
ISSN 1097-6035 (Print)
ISBN 978-0-917860-90-4
Available from The Shop at The Collection for $15
See the table of contents.
“I shall write today all day in an effort to forget the nervousness which has come on me during the night. Perhaps it is a good thing because for days, even weeks, I’ve been horribly idle, doing practically nothing. Now I feel a new story working itself out. . . .”
—Tennessee Williams, notebook entry, July 30, 1936
In 1936, a 26-year-old virgin named Tom Williams began a story that emerged in 1943 as a worldly tale by “Tennessee”—but that then vanished. Discovered 80 years later, “The Lost Girl” makes its print debut in the 2023 issue of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review. Essays link the exciting find to milestones in Williams’s life, use filth and silent action as interpretive lenses on his plays, and reevaluate the first onstage interpretation of Blanche DuBois in Japan. Reviews investigate provocative new stage productions, feature photographs from a groundbreaking reimagining of A Streetcar Named Desire at Paris’s famed Comédie-Française, and introduce a collection of stories recently unearthed from the Williams archives.
Cover image: Françoise Gillard as Stella in Un tramway nommé Désir (Paris, 2011). Photo by Cosimo Mirco Magliocca.
Founded by Robert Bray in 1998 and now edited by R. Barton Palmer, the Review remains the only journal dedicated to the work and influence of this preeminent American playwright. To order a copy of the current issue, please visit the shop at The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Archives
Online versions of issues 1 through 17 (1998 through 2018) can be accessed in our archives.
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Submissions
We are always accepting submissions for our next issue of the Review. The editors invite academic writing on all aspects of the Williams oeuvre, on his contemporaries, and on issues relevant to his era, his work, and his influence. For details, please see our submission guidelines.
Contributors
See notes on all of our contributing writers as well as links to the essays they've written for the Review.
