We are pleased to announce the July 2018 *Wagner Journal* (vol.12, no.2), containing the following feature articles: • ‘Kierkegaard, Wagner and the Quest for Operatic Immediacy‘ by Leo Cabranes-Grant • ‘Setting the Record Straight: Wendelin Weißheimer and the Wagners‘ by Katherine Syer • ‘Wagner and Proust‘ by Jeffrey Swann •‘From Death in Venice to The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann‘s Ironic Response to Wagner‘ by William Kinderman plus reviews of: Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s *Tristan und Isolde* in Berlin and Pierre Audi‘s in Amsterdam; Alvis Hermanis‘ *Parsifal* in Vienna CDs of the *Ring* cycle under Karajan Books on the Hitler–Wagner nexus by Wolfram Pyta and Hans Rudolf Vaget www.thewagnerjournal.co.uk _______________________________________________ AMS-Announce mailing list and bulletin board: READ THE GUIDELINES prior to submitting a post: http://www.ams-net.org/announce.php TO SEE THE ARCHIVED POSTS: https://LISTSERV.UNL.EDU/cgi-bin/wa?A0=AMS-ANNOUNCE TO UNSUBSCRIBE, or switch to/from Digest mode: log in to https://LISTSERV.UNL.EDU and edit your subscription.