Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...Richard Greatrex became a successful cinematographer, nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Shakespeare in Love. Helen Lewis authored important scholarship on labor and social justice in Appalachian...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...Walker deconstructs. Her brilliance sees the ways the old white supremacist romanticism haunts and distorts the new history, too. Just because something is dead as serious history, does not mean...
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...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...before daylight, and I go out and it's pitch black, there's no sound and no light, and that's gone. Many times I've been praying, and just thinking, this is just...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...ca. 1993. Photograph by David Schilling. We became fascinated with the funny moments just before or just after he delivered his monologues—such as when he'd yell at his dogs or...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...creatively examining real and imagined spaces and places to address questions of spatial justice. We provide a public, open access platform for work engaged in nuanced discussions of race, space,...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...we need to scale up not only our self-knowledge, but our self-image as quasi-subjects with the terrible power to change the planet, not just individually, but as species-being. Beasts names...
A Mess of Poke
...Georgia, neighborhood and parks, sometimes bringing home more than a pound of wild-gathered chanterelles (about $50 worth). While chanterelles are just as wild as pokeweed, poke does not show up...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
Introduction Thomas Mullen is the author of four novels, including The Last Town On Earth (2006), which received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize and was recognized by USA Today as...
Off-Season
...the city sprawled out like scattered masonry and split rails, Raleigh, smoked factory winds and speak easy halls. A white chicken fell off a Tyson rig, just a bit ahead...