The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...and edited two poetry anthologies [The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (2004) and Lyric Postmodernisms (2008)]. Courtesy of The University of Pittsburgh Press. Shepherd met his partner, Robert Philen, in Ithaca,...
Whiskey and Geography
...de Chastelleaux observed that it was the only drink served in the American backcountry.1David Hackett-Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 729. In...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...entrevistadora y el entrevistado Bridgette W. Gunnels is Associate Professor of Spanish at Emory University and a scholar in Latin American literature from the twentieth century, in all forms, with...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...frequency with which houses go unfinished or unutilized, as Americans go homeless. (top left) Connections; (top middle) Decommissioned flooring, moulding, railing, siding, and plain pickets; (top right) Abandoned frame for...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
...Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)....
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...are not alone. White southerners and their political leaders oppose immigration reform more than anyone else in the United States. Nearly half (46 percent) of all Americans who want to deny...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...in American Public Schools: Rapidly Resegregating School Districts (Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002), 6–7. When coupled with their spending advantage, evidence indicating newfound support for transit must have given the measure's...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...a voice, a mouth that drinks, and a set of "parts" that cool wind blows across in the night (11).4William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (New York: Vintage International Edition,...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In the wake of the Supreme Court's recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act, we found this helpful map from the American Constitution Society for...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...Alabama. He hopes to work in international or public policy law. Catalina "CJ" McCormick is also a 2009 graduate of the University of Alabama with a degree in communications and...