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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...was panned by art critic Hilton Kramer, as "Perfectly banal, perhaps. Perfectly boring, certainly."2Hilton Kramer, "Art: Focus on Photo Shows," The New York Times, May 28, 1976, 62.  The New...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...of organizations and activists working on these questions. The following owes something to the New Deal economist Milburn Wilson, the geographer J. Russell Smith, the historian Lewis Cecil Gray, the...

Encountering COVID

...all by myself. Then out of the blue came the idea of Humans of New York. And I thought, "Oh, Brandon Stanton interviewed thousands of people in New York, took...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...the chemical transformation of these places, "Intentionally and not, we have designed a new nature" (191). In this extraordinary rendering, Misrach and Orff have given readers a new vision of...