Watching the Surface for a Sign
...this interview, conducted during the 2009 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Chicago, Illinois, Patrick Phillips talks with Natasha Trethewey about his poetry. Subjects of conversation include...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...overall diversity of American society. How can Texas inform the religious dynamics of Chicago, Boston, or Salt Lake City? How does the geography of Texas, with its open ranges, close...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...economies seems to be spreading.6See Herbert Reid and Betsy Taylor, Recovering the Commons: Democracy, Place, and Global Justice (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010); Kathryn Newfont, Blue Ridge...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
Video About the Speaker Born in 1933 to Irish immigrant parents, Constance Curry grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where she...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...on the history of the Tremé see: Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2008); Michael Eugene Crutcher, TremeĢ:...
Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...
Birth Right
...Statistical Profile. Chicago, IL. A 2009 report by the Health Resources and Services Administration found that "approximately 888,000 people, or 19 percent of Alabama's population, cannot access a primary care...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Mississippi John Hurt." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Sweep." Poem text. In this interview at the 2009 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Chicago, Illinois, Rodney...