If you want to keep up with how William Faulkner is being thought about by literary critics, historians, and theorists, check out The Faulkner Journal. The journal publishes general issues, with a variety of essays, and special issues devoted to particular topics. Recent special issues have included “Faulkner the Reiver,” exploring Faulkner’s linkage of writing with stealing; “Faulkner and Masculinity,” bringing new methods of gender study to bear on his work; and the current issue, “Faulkner and Film,” about Faulkner’s work in Hollywood and Hollywood’s work on Faulkner. The current issue also publishes for the first time two teleplays that Faulkner wrote in the 1950s, adaptations of his short stories “The Brooch” and “Shall Not Perish.” The scripts were discovered by William Furry while he was writing his master’s thesis.

   “Faulkner and Film” also contains studies of The Story of Temple Drake, the notorious movie version of Sanctuary; Today We Live, the screen adaptation of “Turnabout” on which Faulkner collaborated; “The De Gaulle Story,” an original screenplay written by Faulkner (but never filmed); and an analysis of the film version of “A Rose for Emily,” made 20 years after Faulkner’s death. Other essays include a comparison of the novel and film version of  Intruder in the Dust and an accounting of the Faulknerian traces in Barton Fink.

Joseph Urgo