Gold Records in Deep Space
...Reenactment of Blind Willie Johnson in The Soul of a Man, 2003. What's different about Wenders' reenactments for The Soul of a Man is that they look like actual fragments...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...is in careful looking. Sometimes I am not sure what I am looking for, so I am in a state of watchfulness. When I went to Andalusia in August, there...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
Review The yeoman farmer is a central figure in debates over the historical dispossessions that created the place we now call Appalachia. For historians like Ron Eller, these self-sufficient small...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
From Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968): I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. Images of all...
The Boatloads
Dante had not thought death had undone so many. He had not been paying attention. Just look at the front page every morning, its solid column of names. It looks...
Submission Process
...accept submissions on a rolling basis. We look for pieces that engage with our mission of critically interrogating the real and imagined spaces of the US South and their global...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...in a fine white dress, surrounded by members of the Boston literati, including Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Edwin Booth, James M. Bugbee, and Elizabeth Harris Houghton. The Appalachian author looks quite...
A Mess of Poke
...we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields, Looks somethin’ like a turnip green. Everybody calls it polk salad. Polk . . . kuh ....
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...suffering that individuals and communities endured, Villanueva treats his subjects with care, ensuring that readers regard the victims as human beings rather than statistics. Scholars of lynching looking for a...
#209, Long Meter
...our best spices flow abroad To entertain our Saviour God; And faith and love and joy appear, And every grace be active here. From Lloyd, Benjamin,...