New Shades o'Death Creek
...With the spring vegetation, it was hidden just then, but Lydde knew where it was, behind a fold of land down and to the left. Farther east, once midway up...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...alone I thought it might be the proverbial train wreck of colliding stereotypes, but like most passersby of an accident I had to stare at least a little. A writer...
Bricking the Church
...back when they set their minds and savings to it. They wanted to assert its form and presence if not in stone at least in hardened earth, urban weight, as...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...Chronicles is on display in Emory's Manuscript and Rare Books Library until May 16, 2014 as a part of the "Building a Movement in the Southeast: LGBT Collections in MARBL"...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...US South where they once existed or dominated, ranging from Maryland down and across the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts to east Texas. The book's creators are activists in the longleaf...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...on race and the Far East generally (219). In a discursive note, he uses envelope scribblings to instantiate "Percy and his friends' affectionate and campy manner towards one another" (333,...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Brood II, a billions-strong legion of cicadas, is expected to emerge later this summer and overrun the East Coast from North Carolina...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...and humanities polymath: a mash-up of John Cassavetes, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Will Oldham, Bret Easton Ellis, and Harold Bloom. As I write this, Franco is likely entering another field, and not...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...exactly in half. In the first half, Wylie has hung the show’s “historic” images—four Adams photographs of Eastern Kentucky from 1986-1988, the Christenberry prints ranging from 1973 to 1980, and...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...that federal rgulators have failed to protect coal miners in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia from breathing excessive amounts of toxic coal dust over the last thirty...