"Napalm Girl" (Again)

     Back in 2022 there were many stories about the photograph of a naked girl running down a road in Vietnam. It had been taken fifty years before and it appeared on the front pages of many newspapers in the summer of 1972. You will be spared from seeing the photo here, but if you want to view it, see the post I did about the "Napalm Girl" and the 50th anniversary of that photo. 
  Prurience or sensationalism were certainly not the motivators behind that post, nor are they now.  I chose the subject because the "Napalm Girl" is Kim Phuc, who is living in Ontario and wants her story to be known. She and here husband were actively involved in promoting peace and supporting refugees. See Napalm Girl for all the details. 
  The picture is very much in the news again, which is why I am posting about it, yet again. I will summarize the current publicity about the picture and provide the sources you need to read about the issue involved.
   There is no dispute about the authenticity of the photograph, but a controversy has developed about who took it. A documentary appearing at the Sundance Festival with the title, "The Stringer", claims that a stringer, Nguyen Thanh Nghe, took the picture, not the AP staff photographer, Nick Ut, who won a Pulitzer Prize for it. Details about how the film was attributed are apparently outlined in the documentary and are discussed elsewhere, including in a 23 page report by the AP (provided below.) The AP stands by the photo as does Ut and Kim Phuc: 
  "In a statement to CBC, Kim Phuc said she doesn't have a clear memory of the day where she was burned, but rejected claims raised in The Stringer. She said she clearly remembered Ut as the only journalist willing to stop shooting to take her to a nearby burn unit, saving her life. That combined with memories from her family and other eyewitnesses, she wrote, convinced her of Ut's role." 
The source for that statement and others are included at the end of this post.

Another Photo
   Since the authenticity of the photograph of the "Napalm Girl" is not questioned, I will turn briefly to another picture from Viet Nam which was also widely displayed. It was taken on Feb.1,1968 and on its 50th anniversary there were also many stories about it.  Although it was taken four years before "Napalm Girl" and both photos were important, the Vietnam War continued for many more years and that leads one to question somewhat, the title of this article: "A Photo That Changed the Course of the Vietnam War," Maggie Astor, New York Times, Feb.1, 2018.
   "Fifty years ago today, the national police chief of South Vietnam calmly approached a prisoner in the middle of a Saigon street and fired a bullet into his head. A few feet away stood Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer, eye to his viewfinder. On a little piece of black-and-white film, he captured the exact moment of the gunshot.... By morning, this last instant of his life would be immortalized on the front pages of newspapers nationwide, including The New York Times. Along with NBC film footage, the image gave Americans a stark glimpse of the brutality of the Vietnam War and helped fuel a decisive shift in public opinion. “It hit people in the gut in a way that only a visual text can do,” said Michelle Nickerson, an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago who has studied the antiwar movement during the Vietnam era. “The photo translated the news of Tet in a way that you can’t quantify in terms of how many people were, at that moment, turned against the war.... A police chief had fired a bullet, point-blank, into the head of a handcuffed man, in likely violation of the Geneva Conventions. And the official was not a Communist, but a member of South Vietnam’s government, the ally of the United States.
“You can talk about ‘the execution photograph from the Vietnam War,’ and not just the generation who lived through it but multiple generations can call that image to mind,” said Susan D. Moeller, the author of “Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat,” and a professor of media and international affairs at the University of Maryland. “It was immediately understood to be an icon.”

Sources: 
  The AP Report has the photograph on its cover: "Investigating Claims Around 'The Terror of War' Photograph," Jan. 15, 2025.
["The Napalm Girl" photograph is also known as "The Terror of War" photograph.]
   “For the past six months, aware that a film challenging this historical record was in production, the AP has conducted its own painstaking research, which supports the historical account that Ut was the photographer. In the absence of new, convincing evidence to the contrary, the AP has no reason to believe anyone other than Ut took the photo.”
   "Sundance Doc, 'The Stringer' Challenges Who Took Napalm Girl Photgraph," Lindsey Bahr, AP, Jan.27, 2025
   "Controversial Doc, 'The Stringer' Investigates Famous Vietnam War Photo,Jada Yuan, Washington Post, Jan.27, 2025.
   " 'Napalm Girl' Photographer Nick Ut, Responds to Claim That He Didn't Take Famous Photo: 'A Slap in the Face', Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 12, 2025.

Homage to Humphry

 
Derek Humphry and the Right-to-Die
  Fifty years ago, Mr. Humphry put a lethal amount of substances into his wife's coffee, along with some sugar to sweeten it, and she died within an hour. She was grateful because she was suffering and he was undoubtedly nervous since he faced years in jail and had to worry about their three children. They both believed in "assisted suicide" or "voluntary euthanasia", which was against the law in Britain. As he later said, "some laws are made to be broken." The case against him was dropped and Mr. Humphry made his way to the United States and later to Oregon where he just died at the age of 94. In that state he could have exited earlier if he chose to do so. Those of us who are grateful to have access to the MAID option, limited though it is, should pause to thank Derek Humphry. 
  I am doing so because it seems to me that the opponents of MAID get far more press than the proponents, particularly in the National Post. While I have not combed through all the MAID stories, there was this one from a few days ago which suggests that we should not celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision which made MAID possible: "A Decade of MAID Expansion: Slippery Slope "Became a Cliff," Yuan UYi Zhu, National Post, Feb. 1, 2025. 
"February marks the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), in which the court unanimously ruled, against both basic logic and its own precedents, that the right to life, guaranteed by the Constitution, included the right to a state-assisted suicide through what came to be known euphemistically as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)."
Apparently if we are allowed to make the individual choice to die, there will be many other people eager to to take advantage of the opportunity to kill many more.
   That interpretation was bluntly put by a non-ethicist. I am in favour of MAID and have indicated that in this post - Dementia Rising, which also mentions that the issue is a complex one, except perhaps for those who wish to deny us the personal right to die when we choose. Perhaps some additional perspective is provided by looking back 50 years, although the slopes were seen to be slippery even back then.

"Derek Humphry, Champion of Assisted-suicide Movement, Dies at 94: Mr. Humphry, a Former Journalist, Co-founded the Hemlock Society Years After Helping His Cancer-stricken Wife Take Her Own Life, Brian Murphy, Washington Post, Jan.25, 2025.
   Jean Humphry’s cancer had spread to her bones, and drugs could no longer control the pain. She was 42. “She picked up the mug of coffee on her own volition and drank it down and just before she passed out she said, ‘Goodbye, my love,’” recalled Mr. Humphry Fifty minutes later she was dead, and Mr. Humphry was left with three young children and the knowledge that he broke British law by assisting his wife to take her life. The moment also set Mr. Humphry on a path to become one of the leaders of the right-to-die movement in the United States — co-founding the Hemlock Society, writing the bestseller “Final Exit” (1991) and helping push through a landmark law in Oregon in 1994 to legalize physician-assisted suicide."

‘Founding Father’ of Right-to-die Movement, Derek Humphry, Dies at 94 in Oregon; author of ‘Final Exit’," Kristine de Leon, The Oregonian, Jan. 28, 2025.
"In November 1994, when 51 percent of Oregon voters approved the Death with Dignity Act, supporters of medically assisted death could trace their first-in-the-nation victory to Humphry, “a British-born journalist with a soothing voice,” The Oregonian wrote that year….Some of Humphry’s views were considered extreme, even among supporters in the movement. For example, he supported physician-assisted death for severely ill people — not just terminally ill people. And he agreed philosophically with the most polarizing figure of the time, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, that euthanasia by lethal injection — sometimes called “voluntary” euthanasia — should be an option for people. Opponents called both of these stances slippery slopes."

"Derek Humphry," The Times, Jan. 23, 2025.

  "Humphry believed that Jean would have died naturally about a month later. But by helping to hasten the end he had committed a crime punishable by up to 14 years in prison and one to which he openly admitted with the publication in 1978 of Jean's Way, an account of her assisted suicide.

   The book shone a spotlight on a taboo subject, with Humphry arguing it was absurd and unjust that the Suicide Act of 1961 decriminalised suicide in England and Wales while deeming assistance illegal. His response to Jean's request was, he affirmed, "a duty of love between spouses".

  The book triggered attention and debate and the director of public prosecutions ordered a police investigation into Jean's death. Interviewed by detectives, Humphry handed them a written confession but sensed they were more interested in the doctor who supplied the drugs. He refused to divulge the physician's identity and six months later the case was dropped…..

    Resilience was also required as he fought for what he termed "self-deliverance" or "rational suicide", especially after the publication in 1991 of Final Exit, his explicit instruction manual. Some Christian fundamentalists declared him "Anti-Christ of the Month". More moderate voices feared it could be used by the non-terminally ill, such as people with depression, or for planning a murder. But the book became a bestseller in the US. "The more the churches, the ethicists and right-wing columnists railed against the moral implications of the book, the more the public went out to buy it," Humphry remarked. Librarians were less enamoured, since they kept having to order new copies as a consequence of understandably low return rates."

Obituary – "Derek Humphry", by Philip Nitschke, Exit International, Jan.26, 2025.
[Exit International was founded in Australia 1997 by Dr Philip Nitschke under the name the Voluntary Euthanasia Research Foundation (VERF). The organisation rebranded in 2001 to be Exit International.]
  "I knew Derek Humphry for almost 30 years.He was an inspiring and driving force in the modern right to die movement.
   I was delighted when he accepted an invitation to attend the Voluntary Euthanasia Research Foundation (forerunner of Exit) Conference in Broken Hill in outback New South Wales in September 1997.
This was the year we first met. He had published his famous book Final Exit a few years earlier.
 It had become the ‘bible’ of the self-help right to die movement. Indeed it was this book that, in turn, inspired the Peaceful Pill Handbook which he kindly launched for Fiona and I, at the Nu Tech conference in Toronto Canada in September 2005.
 The existence of Final Exit made the publication of the Peaceful Pill Handbook easier (at least internationally, if not in Australia where, to this day, it remains a banned publication)."
Sources:
  I will not include sources in this post, but to save you some time if you are looking for your own options, The Hemlock Society has passed on.
It was refreshing to see that the King's University College Library has copies of Final Exit and Dying With Dignity. If one has a Thanatology department, even in a Catholic college, one should be exposed to diverse views about death and dying. 
Bonus:
   Mr. Humphry assisted his wife. More recently a wife took her husband to court to prevent him from using the MAID option. See: "More Contrarian News for Old Codgers (OATS3)." Luckily, the husband won.

GAME BOOKS

 

   This post provides another example of an abandoned project, the purpose of which is forgotten. It is again a sign that I am getting rid of some old notes. It may have been the case that I thought that game books, such as the one pictured above, could yield some interesting information and, at least I can prove that is the case.
   The information may be hard to digest if you are an animal lover or vegetarian. And no larger lessons are learned from it, since these are just my notes from which no conclusions are reached about the large scale slaughters described. If you don't wish to read about the killing of game, read Singer's Animal Liberation instead.
   The OED defines "game book" as "A book or ledger in which details are kept of the game killed in the course of a shoot, or of all the game killed on a particular estate." In 1908, Lord Alanbrooke notes, "I have just been adding up my game book, and find that my totals for the larger game work out most satisfactorily for my first year in India."  If you have read much history about the upper classes you will have run across such books and realize that hunting was both a sport and pastime which also provided a considerable amount of food.
   Such books are typically classified under a broad heading and are not easily identified. This one was found in storage in the collection of the Western Libraries and is likely to be shipped off soon for storage elsewhere. Here are some passages from Leaves From A Game Book, followed by some other notes.
   The first interesting item is from the forward where one learns that, “This book was written in various prison-camps in Germany." It is well-written as you will see and you will also learn a bit about the appeal of hunting, and that fish can be found in trees.

   “Little mention will be found in this book of large-scale shoots, or of notable bags obtained. For though most of us can and do recall such occasions with pleasure, they must almost invariably rank second in our memories. The first places are filled with those treasured days when we went forth alone, or but with one or two friends, to the achievement of a small triumph, or the gaining of experience by defeat. No true hunter of game really minds  disproportionate rewards for his labours, or even total failure; the actual killing of the quarry represents so small a part of his enjoyment.” (pp.6-7)
   “The majority of us, whatever our detractors may assert to the contrary, have no desire to take life simply for the pleasure of seeing blood. If we had, our natural propensities would surely lead us to find our enjoyment in the nearest slaughterhouse. What we want is to match our wits, our quickness of hand and eye, our powers of patience, or concentration, or pure physical courage, against those of a wild creature. And that we should have to kill our prey in order to complete the victory may be regrettable; nevertheless it is a deep-rooted and an essentially natural instinct in man. But the true hunter desires no easy conquest. Rather will he prize difficulties, prefer that the odds may be in favour of the quarry and that the duel should be played out in exactly those surroundings which constitute the natural home of the hunted — and the erstwhile home of the hunter also.” (p28)
   “I got no other chance at pig during that drive, though even I could scarcely have failed to kill a mouse deer which stood in the open, at point-blank range, for several seconds. But to destroy so fairy-like a creature, looking no bigger than an English hare, with a weapons not unsuitable for disabling a light tank seemed altogether too grotesque a piece of savagery. So, after peering at me in a doubtful and short sighted manner with its large soft eyes, the mouse deer skipped safely away among the trees; leaving for me an enduring memory of the slender grace of delicate legs, of the tiny polished feet and shining coat of brown-and-white satin.” (p.21)
Malaya
   “Of the hot two hour journey up the river my recollections are a little confused. I remember the Dutchman distributed bottled beer from the ice-chest and corkscrew cheroots from one of his packages; that we sat drinking and smoking, as the green steaming banks slid smoothly by…. But one most vivid recollection of the journey I can must describe in full. I am not likely ever to forget it., for it was of the nature of a Solemn Warning. Seating facing the bows, I was idly scanning the twisted masses of the mangroves when, amid a tangle of roots, branches and leaves some three feet above the mud, I encountered the stonily disapproving stare of a fish….I closed my eyes. This, then, was what happened to immoderate drinkers in the tropics. I remembered with shame that I had been wont to consider as diverting tales of men who saw pink elephants, or snakes wearing hats – or fish in trees….But when I looked again the thing was still there; a veritable slate-grey, blunt-nosed fish, eight inches long and perched comfortably in the crook of a branch. And, as we drew abreast of it the creature shuffled hastily down from its eyre, propelled itself with seal-like flippers over the mud, and vanished into the water. “They are funny little fishes those belukang,” said the Dutchman placidly. “Always they sit out on the mud and sometimes, as now in a tree. Very amusing. You will have some schnapps in your beer—yes?” (p.150)

  Game books will be found in the collections of other good university libraries. In the "Hawthorn Fly Fishing & Angling Collection" at UBC, you will find Alan Roderick Haig-Brown's, My Game Book and you can look through the 293 pages.
  Such books often have been digitized and are located in the Internet Archive and in collections like the one at the Biodiversity Heritage Library, where this book is found: Leaves From a Game Book, by Augustus Grimble.
   The figures relating to the number of birds and animals killed are often astonishingly large. Here is a sample from the Grimble book noted above.

Data such as these are used by historians as is seen here:
  "Head keepers, who were responsible for coordinating the driving of the birds, utilized a small army of beaters to sweep in wide areas on the days before the main shoot to concentrate birds on the beats that were to be shot. The record bag of 1,671 partridges, regarded as the best sporting bird, was achieved in 1905 on Lord Leicester’s Holkham beat in Norfolk. A close second was the total achieved in 1906 on the Duke of Portland’s estate of 1,504 killed on the Blue Barn beat, while 1,461 birds were shot in a single day on Lord Ashburton’s celebrated shooting estate near Alresford in Hampshire in1897. Not far behind was the Prince of Wales’s Sandringham estate, where in 1905 1,342 birds were secured. 
  Shooting parties achieved considerably larger bags of pheasants, as it was easier to amass them and drive them in military style to the waiting guns. The all-time record for a single day’s shooting is credited to a party of seven guns, which included King George V and the Prince of Wales, on an estate at Beaconsfield in 1913, when 3,937 pheasants, three partridges, four rabbits, and one “various” were shot. Warter Priory achieved a memorable day in 1909 with 3,824 pheasants. A party of eight guns, including King Edward VII, achieved an outstanding bag in 1903, killing 3,948 pheasants in two days, while in 1906 another party, which also included the king, shot 4,310 pheasants in three days. As historian J. G. Ruffer has poignantly noted, “The big shoots were a curious phenomenon which dominated winter months of English society for about forty years.”
(From, "British Game Shooting in Transition, 1900-1945," John Martin, Agricultural History, Vol.85, 2011-04,p.204.)

  If you are now interested in such books, you can find some on Amazon and this one at Quiller Publishing:

  About the killing of things there are also many books produced about and by  hunters and those from the lower orders. From the state where I grew up, there is this one for example: Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter; Being Reminiscences of Meshach Browning, a Maryland Hunter; Roughly Written Down by Himself. There is even a marker about him, unless it has been torn down or removed by those who think we should no longer see such things: "A Maryland Historical Marker states Browning was Garrett County's most famous hunter, killing 2,000 deer and 500 bears during this 40-year period. This marker lies within eyesight of Browning's grave at St. Dominic's Catholic Cemetery in Hoye, Maryland."

  If you are also interested in purchasing a "long gun" for yourself, you won't find any any longer than this one, a "punt gun" typical of the ones used by market hunters.

 

Sources:
  If you are interested in cooking game, see this Exhibit at the University of the Fraser Valley. For many more recipes see, Food History. 

Squash News at Western

   The picture above may look familiar since you will have seen variations of it over forty years. It is from Mustang Communications (2/10/25) where you can read this report about the OUA Squash Championship which was held last weekend at Niagara-on-the-Lake. The Western women's team won gold as well, and the details are provided in this article in The Gazette: "Squash Teams Sweep OUA Championship," Maegan White, Feb. 14, 2025. 
  Such attention is well deserved, but there is typically not much of it up on campus. I suppose the more popular sports naturally attract more attention, even when much less successful, and that the resources for Mustang Communications are rather limited. It is also the case that the squash team matches are not played on campus and some important ones soon to be played, will be played on campus courts in the States. 
   Back in early January the U.S. Naval Academy squash team invaded London in an event that was not much noticed, although Ryan Pyette wrote about it in the LFP, Jan.7: "The Western men's squash team beat the United States Navy 8-1 on the weekend at the London Squash and Fitness Club in the first U.S. college match held here since the pandemic."

   Although the Midshipmen lost in London, the event was well-covered in Annapolis as the photo illustrates and these points indicate: "The 16th-ranked Navy squash team (11-3) dropped just its third match of the season, as #14 Western (4-5) dealt the Mids an 8-1 setback at the London Squash Club in London, Ontario, Canada on Saturday." The results:

1 | Dylan Deverill (W) def Matt Wang (N) // 11-8, 11-7, 11-6

2 | Wenqing Tang (N) def Antonio Mendes (W) // 11-9, 11-3, 11-6

3 | Daniel Deverill (W) def Alexander Orr (N) // 14-12, 11-9, 11-4

4 | Amin Khan (W) def Matthew Kang (N) // 11-7, 11-7, 12-10

5 | Josh Kay (W) def Lucas Spiro (N) // 11-8, 8-11, 11-5, 11-5

6 | William Znidarec (W) def Tighe Mullarkey (N) // 11-3, 12-10, 11-4

7 | Rio Schafer (W) def Ramsay Killinger (N) // 12-10, 12-10, 11-3

8 | Tyson Schille (W) def Michael Tierney Jr. (N) // 11-9, 711, 11-8, 15-13

9 | Griffin Manley (W) def Sean Wu (N) // 11-2, 11-2, 6-11, 11-7

EXH | Ben Boulanger (W) def Holden Woodward (N) // 11-5, 11-3, 11-2
  The rankings above refer to those of the U.S. College Squash Association where Western currently ranks #13. The University of Western Ontario began playing the U.S. college teams under Coach Jack Fairs. I don't think there is any other example of Canadian universities competing consistently with U.S. universities, and at the highest level. The tradition continues at Western under Coach Chris Hanebury who, I am sure, has much less support than the coaches at, say Penn or Princeton. (Tyler Osborne, the squash coach at the Naval Academy, played for Princeton and is from Kingston, ON.)
For a brief history (mine) of UWO versus the U.S. squash teams see:
UWO SQUASH AND THE U.S. COLLEGIATE SQUASH CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Fickleness of Rankings

 

Business Schools
  Yesterday the respected Financial Times  released its rankings of MBA programs and some Deans are tooting horns, while others are looking at different rankings. The headline reads: "Wharton Tops 2025 FT MBA Ranking Despite Strong European Competition:  The Best MBAs are Holding Their Own Amid Challenges From Alternative Courses and Concerns for the Degree’s Future."
   Canadian schools did not do well, but some at least made the Top 100: 
76 University of Toronto: Rotman Canada 
79 Queen's University: Smith Canada 
86 Western University: Ivey Canada 
94 McGill University: Desautels Canada 
95 University of British Columbia: Sauder Canada 
  The focus locally should be on this article provided recently in the LFP: "New Ranking Give High Marks to Western University's Ivey Business School," Heather Rivers, Feb. 2, 2025. "Western University’s business school is among the best in Canada, according to a new list – and it comes amid what the ranking firm’s top official calls a difficult year for all post-secondary schools across the nation.
CourseCompare rankings are promoted as being primarily “rooted in job readiness,” said chief executive Robert Furtado, who ranks Ivey business school as the No. 1 blended online MBA program in the country." The article also mentions that," Ivey has been ranked No. 1 in Canada by Bloomberg Business Week for nine years.
  The rule of rankings is that they are only touted when one is near the top of them. Although one can use a low ranking to ask for more assistance to get higher, it is generally best to remain silent. That has generally been the case here in London, for there has been little news about this city failing to get into the ranking of "The 100 Most Livable Cities in Canada" ---- twice.
The 100 Most Livable Cities in Canada - 2023.
The 100 Most Livable Cities in Canada - 2024.   

Two Lists of Single Author Journals

They Are Difficult to Find

I have rambled on about single author periodicals in many posts and this will be the fourth in a row about that subject. It will be the last one. My few readers will be relieved, but should any accidental visitor stumble upon them, I am sure they will be useful. I say "sure" because finding them is difficult.

To demonstrate the difficulty in finding single author journals as a category (i.e. all of them) I will present first, the result I found after conducting another search for them. Given that the words "author(s)" and "journal(s)" yield a large number of unrelated "hits" one might find the following single author journals listed in Wikipedia, under: "List of Academic Journals About Specific Authors." I will say right away that not all such journals are "academic" and, to indicate that the list is hundreds of titles short of being complete, I provide a list of single author journals published currently by just one university press. It is still the case that the best reference source is an old one and it remains the starting point for any future researcher: Author Newsletters and Journals : An International Annotated Bibliography of Serial Publications Concerned With the Life and Works of Individual Authors, by Margaret C. Patterson.

Before the lists, here are some brief remarks which, along with my other posts, may be useful for anyone who chooses to work on this subject or look for these periodicals.

-That there is an academic industry devoted to single intellectuals/authors should not be surprising. There are also many periodicals devoted to popular authors.

- There are entire courses dedicated to one author and there are conferences held on their behalf, but some writers are seen to merit more attention and given it in serial publications.

- Retiring academics are sometimes honoured by a Festschrift so single author journals can be regarded as simply continually published Festschriften. - Not all single author journals are about single authors. Some include others who are in some way closely related. - One is likely find them mentioned only in bibliographies or when a new one comes along and an advertisement is produced in a publication such as the TLS. I spotted one a while back about The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society and I learned recently that the Arnold Bennett Society publishes a 40+ page newsletter three times a year. They often appear on lists when they die.

- The market for such serials is small and even university libraries will usually have only those devoted to major figures (Shakespeare) or those demanded by a zealous faculty member.

- And again to demonstrate how hard they are to locate, there is no way to find out how many of these journals your favourite university library has.

The Internet is likely to result in a decline in the number of single author journals in printed form. There is, however, unlikely to be a decrease in the number of individuals who remain dedicated to their own favourite author.

         LIST OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS ABOUT SPECIFIC AUTHORS
   This list is found in Wikipedia along with this brief statement: "The following is a list of notable academic journals and magazines that are devoted to the study of specific authors and philosophers. Some of the journals are not currently active."
   Links are provided in some cases and some go to an entry for the journal in Wikipedia. There are more than 66 since some authors rate more than one journal, e.g., Dickens(3) Hegel(3), Shakespeare(3). The subjects range from, fiction, politics (Lincoln), and religion to philosophy and the geographic coverage is broad, e.g. C.L.R. James (Trinidad). Women are included: Cather, Dickinson, Rand, and some journals are about more than one author, e..g the Brontes and The Inklings. The Acorn, is listed next to Gandhi and King "since it explores philosophical issues related to non-violence in theory and practice, with a focus on the work of M. K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr." Fitzgerald and Hemingway also share a journal. Although these people have their own journal, I am willing to bet there are names you will not recognize. That the list is only a partial one is illustrated by the next list which is from just one press.

1. Hannah Arendt. Arendt Studies

2. Aristotle. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

3. Augustine of Hippo. Augustinian Studies; Augustinianum

4. Jane Austen. Persuasions; Jane Austen Annual

5. Samuel Beckett. Journal of Beckett Studies; Samuel Beckett Today

6. George Berkeley. Berkeley Studies

7. Brontë family. Brontë Studies

8. Willa Cather. Willa Cather Newsletter & Review

9. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The Chesterton Review

10. Joseph Conrad. The Conradian

11. Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze and Guattari Studies

12. Jacques Derrida. Derrida Today

13. Charles Dickens. Dickens Quarterly; Dickens Studies Annual; The Dickensian

14. James Dickey. James Dickey Review

15. Emily Dickinson. The Emily Dickinson Journal

16. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Baker Street Journal

17. T. S. Eliot. T. S. Eliot Studies Annual

18. Philip José Farmer. Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer

19. William Faulkner. The Faulkner Journal

20. F. Scott Fitzgerald. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review; Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual

21. Theodor Fontane. Fontane Blätter

22. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Acorn

23. Robert Graves. Gravesiana

24. Graham Greene.Graham Greene Studies

25. Félix Guattari. Deleuze and Guattari Studies

26. H. Rider Haggard. Haggard Journal

27. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel Bulletin; Hegel-Jahrbuch; The Owl of Minerva

28. Martin Heidegger. Heidegger Studies

29. Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway Review; Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual

30. David Hume. Hume Studies

31. Edmund Husserl. Husserl Studies

32. The Inklings. Journal of Inklings Studies; VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center; Mythlore [not about an individual, but an Oxford discussion group.]

33. C. L. R. James. The CLR James Journal

34. Henry James. The Henry James Review

35. Ben Jonson Ben. Jonson Journal

36. James Joyce. James Joyce Quarterly

37. Franz Kafka. Journal of the Kafka Society of America

38. Immanuel Kant. Kant Yearbook; Kant-Studien; Kantian Review

39. Søren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook; Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series

40. D. H. Lawrence. D. H. Lawrence Review

41. Martin Luther King Jr. The Acorn

42. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The Leibniz Review; Studia Leibnitiana

43. Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas Studies

44. C. S. Lewis. Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal; VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center.

45. Abraham Lincoln. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association

46. Bernard Lonergan. The Lonergan Review

47. Pierre Loti. Bulletin de l'Association internationale des amis de Pierre Loti

48. Thomas Mann. Thomas Mann Jahrbuch (in German)

49. Cormac McCarthy. The Cormac McCarthy Journal

50. Herman Melville. Leviathan

51. Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Chiasmi International

52. Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov Studies

53. Friedrich Nietzsche. New Nietzsche Studies; The Journal of Nietzsche Studies

54. Paul the Apostle. Pauline Studies; Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters

55. Edgar Allan Poe. Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation

56. Marcel Proust. Marcel Proust Bulletin

57. Ayn Rand. The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies

58. Philip Roth. Philip Roth Studies

59. Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre Studies International

60. William Shakespeare. Shakespeare Bulletin; Shakespeare Quarterly; The Shakespeare Yearbook

61. George Bernard Shaw. SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies

62. Wallace Stevens. The Wallace Stevens Journal

63. J. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkien Studies; Journal of Tolkien Research; Mallorn; VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center; Quettar

64. Giambattista Vico. New Vico Studies

65. Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf Bulletin

66. Slavoj Žižek. International Journal of Žižek Studies

LIST OF SINGLE AUTHOR JOURNALS FROM PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS This list was constructed from the journals listed at PSU Press in 2025. There is no category for these single author journals. I simply took the ones I identified on the list of PSU journals. Other journals in this category would be found at other university press websites. For example, the University of Chicago Press publishes, Spencer Studies and The Wordsworth Circle.

1. The Arthur Miller Journal
2. Bishop–Lowell Studies
3. The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism
4. The Cormac McCarthy Journal
5. Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction
6. The Edgar Allan Poe Review
7. Edith Wharton Review
8. The Eugene O'Neill Review
9. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
10. George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies
11. The Harold Pinter Review: Essays on Contemporary Drama
12. The Langston Hughes Review
13. The Mark Twain Annual
14. Milton Studies
15. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
16. SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies
17. Steinbeck Review
18. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats [about more than one author.]
19. Thornton Wilder Journal
20. Wesley and Methodist Studies
21. William Carlos Williams Review     

   If you are interested in the class of single author journals, Patterson's

Author Newsletters and Journals : An International Annotated Bibliography of Serial Publications Concerned With the Life and Works of Individual Authors, is still the place to begin. If you want to take on a large research project to update that work, you will have a lot of work to do. Some of the other related posts in MM will be useful and since this is my last mention of this subject, here is one short piece I was unable to examine: "One Man's Meat: Societies and Journals Devoted to a Single Author," William White, American Book Collector, 1957, 8(3), p.22. 
  To use a word that may be found in one of Zane Grey's books, or journals about him, I will now say adios to this subject.