The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...contradiction and complexity and difficulty but not obscurity. Though they made me feel, I did not then, nor do I now, fully understand what I feel when I encounter and...
Good-Bye to All That?
...representation in the state house and senate moved back and forth between fairly conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans and there was considerable cross-party cooperation. Party affiliation by race in Pisgah...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...the cartography of Petrochemical America, mutating it into a place where pipes and roots and crosses and truck stops and abandoned schools and caves and the good life and the...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...and around them at our streets, our prisons, our decaying urban schools, and the slave trade that still keeps many women bound to men every bit as bad as Edwin...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...digs into environmentalism to understand its flaws, contradictions and their ramifications.4Paul Sabin, "Environmental Law and the End of the New Deal Order," Law and History Review 33, no. 4 (November...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...and through and through, the tall attenuated creatures are of an almost colorless transparency" (158). Calling to mind both Croghan's consumptives and the white, translucent, and blind fish that populate...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the 1870s , and the color scheme and arrangement of Mary's quilt are typical of the region and the era. It is constructed of twenty identical blocks of a very...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...and Jesse, a French woman and American man (played by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke), who meet on a train and spend one night wandering around Vienna flirting and talking...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...be thirteen and was now married and had a boy and lived with her husband in Florida. So that began the conversation. I said, "Would you talk on film?" and...
"Aint that Something?"
...attests, "The retardation around here staggers the mind" (129), and she describes a classmate's eyes as "dull as social studies, and she had no idea men had been to the...