Remnants of Flannery
...Drago's story is based is startling in its simplicity—a solid background with a black-ink drawing in the foreground—and as such, Drago's story follows an age old plot: two friends go...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...space variously named and claimed by multiple imperial powers (including Spain, France, Britain and, starting in the 1790s, the United States), numerous Indian nations and confederacies (including the Natchez, Apalachee,...
Dirty Little Story
...ash-covered beer cans. I've seen trash thrown from boats washed up on the shoreline. But, I repeat: I've never seen anything like this. In the summer, there is always some...
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 Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...hope.” The opening of the 1982 song "Person" sounds like the manifesto of a kid on the cusp of becoming a teenager, both narcissistic and vulnerable: “I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I am a person....
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Hearn, a peripatetic journalist who did stints in Cincinnati and New Orleans before moving to Japan in the early 1890s. Born in 1850 on an Ionian island to a Greek...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...cardboard cutouts, and illustrations. One of his gold records sits on the floor, the glass in its frame shattered, debris strewn nearby. "It's all fleeting," Cash said in one of...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...on Anglos in Mexico fueled anti-Mexican sentiment in the United States. In November 1910, an Anglo mob in Rocksprings, Texas, stormed the jail and seized Antonio Rodríguez. Claiming that the...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...the . . . East Coast. . . . I was in a big crowd, and I learned it in the evening [in] the crowd. . . . I learned...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...exactly where I was standing when it all sunk in. I was photographing in Mississippi in early March 2020, on spring break from teaching at Duke, my near annual pilgrimage...