Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...New York, 2009–2018. Piano keys, plaster bust, and glitter, dimensions vary. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Loichot's "Graves for Katrina" examines the work of mourning effected by visual...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker,...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of slavery through landscape photography in his exhibition Elegy which I visited in January 2024 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Elegy features three photographic collections and two short...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...having populations of 100,000 or more. There were fourteen: Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery in Alabama; Little Rock in Arkansas; Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Shreveport in Louisiana; Jackson...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...lynchings occurred, it was undergoing a process of change into a "New South" city. In the late nineteenth century, the population had grown alongside new factories, mills, and other industrial...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...general editor of a new book series, "New Directions in Southern Studies", published by the University of North Carolina Press and as a member of the Southern Spaces Editorial Board....
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
..."The Mercy," "Six Yellow Stanzas," "Georgia Postcard," "The Dirt Eaters," and "Ars Poetica #100: I Believe." About Elizabeth Alexander Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...with Warren Court decisions, particularly in . . . reapportionment."3Mark Sullivan, Memorandum for Mark Levin, Dec. 12, 1985, https://www.archives.gov/files/news/samuel-alito/accession-060-97-761/Acc060-97-761-box1-Alito.pdf. It was in the same application in which Alito that he...
Whiskey and Geography
...Newfound Sovereignty (New York: Scribner, 2006), 66. With this kind of consumption pattern among the English, they had little room to ridicule people of the western mountains as habitual drunks....