JSSE 86 - 2026

Panoramic readings

• Tom Mitchell | The Making of a Writer: Tennessee Williams’s Early Short Fiction
• Thomas Keith | A Web of Inspiration: The Role of Short Stories in Tennessee Williams’s Creative Process

Focused perspectives

• Michael S. D. Hooper | “Nothing but time”: Retirement, Social Isolation, and Temporality in Tennessee Williams’s Short Stories
• Marta Miquel-Baldellou | Abjecting and Embracing Healing and Haunting Specters of Aging in Tennessee Williams’s “The Angel in the Alcove” and “The Mysteries of the Joy Rio”
• Mauricio D. Aguilera Linde | “You are kinder than you think”: Circe as the Spectral Mother in Tennessee Williams’s “Man Bring This Up Road”
• Luis Marcio Arnaut de Toledo | “Not money, but feelings”: A Survey of Tennessee Williams’s Stories in Brazil 

New(s) from the archives

• David Kaplan | The Something That Comes to the Widow Holly: The Men from the Polar Star
• John S. Bak | “A Chicken Farm in Idaho” by Thomas Lanier [Tennessee] Williams. Commentary by John S. Bak 

Interview

• Gérald Préher | From Oscar Wilde to Tennessee Williams, from Ireland to the American South: An Interview with Emmanuel Vernadakis 

Bibliography

• Sophie Maruéjouls-Koch and Laura Torres Zúñiga | Tennessee Williams’s Short Fiction: A Bibliography