The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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Southern Spaces Recommends
...through George Eliot's Daniel Deronda. It was worth the nine-hundred-page trip, largely for Eliot's foray into Jewish cultural politics in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and for her...
Mapping Souths
...if that antinomic construction ever existed—has hardly removed it from the domain of everyday use. About the Author Scott Romine, an associate professor of English at the University of North...
Congregation
...Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University. Her first collection, Domestic Work, won the 1999 Cave Canem prize, a 2001...
Geography
Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text. About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
Blog post Mother Jones died ninety years ago, but she was back in Alabama this July. It was not her first visit to the state. She came to Birmingham and...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...told reporters that his parents asked him to never give interviews about "Uncle Mike" for fear that the white press would seek to tarnish his legacy and that of other...
Zircon
...Hall of Fame in 2010. Born on October 3, 1944 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, he has taught since 1971 at Cornell University, where he is Kappa Alpha Professor of English....
Sonic Zora in Florida
...and belting them out for a wonkish gaggle of folklore scholars, a captive audience who, nonetheless, prods her for details. Scholarly jostling ripples as an undercurrent in these sessions. But...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...prevent us from the familiar condition that when at home the protagonist so often wishes to be away, and when away the deepest wish is often to be at home....