| EDITORIAL |
| The South Carolina Review as Little Magazine |
| ESSAYS |
| Jane Bowers Hill |
John Irving's Aesthetics of Accessibility: Setting Free the Novel |
| Donald J. Greiner |
Pynchon, Hawkes, and Updike: Readers and the Paradox of Accessibility |
| Zohreh T. Sullivan |
Women Novelists and Variations on the Uses of Obscurity |
| Mary C. Williams |
The Aesthetics of Accessibility: Contemporary Poetry and Its Audience |
| John E. Loftis |
Technique as Metaphor in James Dickey's Deliverance |
| John P. McGowan |
Of Truth and Lies in Browning’s Dramatic Monologues |
| FICTION |
| Two Stories by Stephen Dixon |
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| Bo Ball |
In Touch With God |
| Warren Leamon |
Ice |
| Rosanne Coggeshall |
Quincy Lee's Party |
| Richard Burgin |
Mason |
| POETRY |
| John Ditsky |
A Thirst for Music |
| Robert Parham |
A Jewish Uncle Dies in Miami |
| Two Poems by Peter Hancke |
The Lives of the Poets VI • A Birthday Candle for Jonne Donne |
| James McMakin |
To William Aarnes: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Jogger |
| Two Poems by William Aarnes |
The First • Accused |
| Two Poems by Laurence Lieberman |
Fairchild Market: Meats and Mauby • Cane Fires |
| Robert Pinsky |
A Long Branch Song |
| Two Poems by Charles Edward Eaton |
Blue Grotto • The Dervish |
| R. T. Smith |
Birthmark |
| REVIEWS |
| Robert W. Hill |
Eros at the World Kite Pageant by Laurence Lieberman; The Knife and Other Poems and Sewanee in Ruins by Richard Tillinghast; Proud and on My Feet by J.W. Rivers; The Day We Still Stand Here by Gary Margolis; The Thing King by Charles Edward Eaton |
| William E. Cain |
Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy by Geoffrey H. Hartman |
| Jan Nordby Gretlund |
Flannery O'Connor: The Imagination of Extremity by Frederick Asals |
| John L. Idol, Jr. |
Welcome to Our City by Thomas Wolfe, edited by Richard S. Kennedy |