Roadside Architecture
...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...was exciting was the sense that everyone who was willing to read widely, listen carefully, and contribute generously would be part of building a critical community. The exchange that takes...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...finds a place above a falls where the water looks shallow and slow. The river is a boundary between South Carolina and Georgia, and she wants to wade into the...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...spotlighted below a giant caramel ribbon of rock that flows down the center of image from outside the frame. Below “Johnny,” which sits on the wall like a crown, names...
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...(35). John Egerton, "Possum on Terrace" with handwritten notes, 1987. Popham became a leader of a group of who called themselves the War Correspondents, white men who made their careers...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...the story," the African American artist Kara Walker has said about her art. "You keep creating a monster that swallows you." In a mid-career retrospective currently on tour, Walker's subject...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...prison than out. "The most dangerous woman in America," one prosecutor called her; "She is a wonder," her friend Carl Sandberg wrote; "The walking wrath of God," Upton Sinclair declared....
Dirty Little Story
...A Plan B is a wonderful thing at such a moment. We all pile back into the car. The weather is like October. The lake water is warm. The sky...