Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...gawking tourists, all staples of premiers up at Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.1We should all refuse to call Grauman's Chinese Theater, with its famed footprints of the stars out...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...going to die, but he managed to escape. He came to Pittsboro, North Carolina, where our farm was. We worked with him and taught him to drive. Hope gave him...
"Aint that Something?"
...Dawn, she looks back at the reader, redirecting the gaze. Just as coal mining has indelibly impacted the Appalachian landscape, it haunts the pages of Appalachian literature. In Trampoline, Dawn's...
Mississippi Delta
...into the Delta through the end of the century in hopes of gaining greater economic opportunity there than elsewhere. Company stores and offices and clinic of Delta Pine Company, Cotton...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...into the modern era by the cheap electricity and federal intervention of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority. (There are two TVA songs in the Truckers catalogues.)2The two songs are...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...subject that has figured in every United Nations environmental since 1972) and the international negotiations and treaties over the limitations of carbon and greenhouse gases in the 1990s. Spears includes...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...spot along the Jordan, the cave ceiling hung so low that "[p]assengers are obliged to double up, and lie on each other's shoulders, till this gap is passed" (414). Mandeville...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Richard Misrach, courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles. Abandoned church from True Detective episode two, "Seeing Things," 2014. © HBO....
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...and its auteur to garner several more golden statues. Just don't expect the drama to be confined to the movie itself. When McQueen went up to receive his honor at...
Congregation
...of cleanup, my brother sat on the stoop and watched. He watched the ambulances speed by, the police cars; watched for the looters who'd come each day to siphon gas...