The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...cases (26 deaths) of the West Nile virus disease in humans in 43 states so far this year. This number represents the highest total in late August since the CDC...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...explore what happens after someone is released from prison. We reached out to the Foundry, a private, faith-based re-entry facility for men in Bessemer, a city adjoining Birmingham. Over the...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...that literature unimportant. Quite the contrary. The paucity and transience of Confederate literature, he contends, is its great virtue as an object of study, for it "allows us to trace...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
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...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...area because the new road is one way of getting from Johnson City to Asheville as fast as you can. The people that are passing this road (Highway 23) right...
Darkly
...I can sit beside them hardly out of place, then watch them rise and part the city's yellow crape of light, and then a door I can open to follow...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
Review "By branding the South as the racist section of the country," writes Brent Campney, "those narrating the identity of other sections have found a foil against which they can...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...High. Wall labels offer bits of historical context and descriptions of events with a simplicity that matches the understated power of the images. For example, one of several photos identified...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...we need to dream (that is, to make into creed, to make tangible) of our complicity as a dangerous, polluting species. Wink and Hushpuppy. Still from Beasts of the Southern...