Darkly
...first appeared in The Southern Review and will appear in Persons Unknown (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010, forthcoming). Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...to llamas, chickens, cats, and dogs, when not. Four years ago, I was approached by Stefanie Pierce, at that time the administrative assistant in the Department of Environmental Sciences at...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
Review Sensory history is an exciting new approach to writing history. It offers a fresh take on past perceptions. Sensing between the lines of written sources, the sensory historian recasts...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...public health and specific geographies—both real and imagined—in and across the US and global South. The journal welcomes projects relating to any time period or genre. Interdisciplinary frameworks, critical approaches...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...to be seen. Appalachian activist and poet Wendell Berry published a new poetry collection titled This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems, documenting and exploring Berry's habitual Sunday strolls on...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...that have previously appeared in publications in our journal. This special issue complements scholarship published in Southern Spaces analyzing Trethewey's life and work, including Jake Adam York's 2010 interview with...
The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...living in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The Army Corps of Engineers is planning to close a controversial freshwater diversion that appeared to be building new land at...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...By emphasizing the biological diversity, beauty, and value of these remarkable forests, this book will help readers "gain a new appreciation for the wonders of the longleaf forest" (x). Hopefully...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...novels have failed to approximate what makes these books great: the language that layers detail upon idiom upon idea upon history, building up a story like paint on a canvas...
A Virginia winter, Amherst County, Virginia, 2008