Work
...throwing thread. Clack-thump. Clack-thump. Hammering sirens sing fiber into endless reams of cloth. Clack-thump. Whir. Whir. Whir. Fibrous colors drape the architecture of my sleep. Clacking and whirring lift louder...
The Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley Edward Beyer, Digital Restoration of "Harper's Ferry from Jefferson Rock" from Album of Virginia: Illustrations of the Old Dominion, 1858. The Shenandoah Valley's history marks it as...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...towns. Gentrification is occurring, but the area remains relatively cheap, isolated, hard to get to, and modest, especially outside the historic districts and areas close to campus. And somehow, within...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...mainstay in Wake County since 1976, when WCPSS was formed through the merger of a district serving Raleigh and another serving suburban Wake County (14–17). Legislation passed by the North...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Chemicals for Insecticides Are Released Each Year," Durham Herald, NC, October 20, 1949, Folder: N-16: Newspaper Clippings-Insecticides, Box 3, Record Group 26, Subgroup 4, Series 21, Georgia Archives. As a...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...she goes to the Senior Center, where there is bingo on Tuesdays, and singing on Thursdays, and exercise on Fridays. The people who gather there are mostly women, many who...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...and narrow windows, and the blasts of thunder shaking the walls evoke the history of slavery. Like naïve Hansel and Gretel, we seek shelter and sugar. Walker describes her work...