"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...World in Vilas, North Carolina, frames Appalachia in ways that foreground nostalgia for an imagined simpler and remote American past (Figure 18). A closer look reveals the smartphone in the...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...after securing his two-year-old son and running away from his master, to a free space, "those thick forests that seem to hold the new world in their arms" and living...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...enters a world of one-percenter bikers, dark roadhouses, and thickly masculine tropes—which is saying something given that True Detective is a show about men living in a brutally masculine world....
Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...by Cynthia Scott. © Cynthia Scott. Mann was on vacation when the storm struck on August 29, 2005, so, like viewers all over the world, he watched television coverage of...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...Merchants relied on the river as a connector to one another and a link to the European world but experienced it only as infrequent, transitory visitors. In contrast to both...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...