Love and Death in Mississippi
...happened at Mr. S's house. I grabbed my little brother's hand as my older sister grabbed mine and we headed out. When my mother got home that evening, I knew...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...New York Times in 2007, I felt compelled to go and see Andalusia. Although Susana Rabb's evocative color photographs captured Andalusia, I wanted to see how I could photograph it....
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...other men.3Quoted in Robert Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 179. It was against this...
Residues of Border Control
...Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff, "Immigrants Make Paths to Suburbia, Not Cities," in The New York Times (New York: 2010). Even in terms of the absolute increase in foreign-born population, three...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...in which Kazin never, by "Native," means American Indian writing from any region of the Americas. My new book project, On Native Southern Ground, sets out to demonstrate that the...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...newer version of the Soundscriber Hurston would have used, New York, 1944. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image in Public Domain. Bottom, Zora Neale Hurston with Rochelle French and Gabriel Brown,...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...mother’s hometown of Macon, Georgia, to live with family until he left, after graduating from high school, at age seventeen. He enrolled as an undergraduate at Bennington College, leaving in...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...The New Yorker, October 10, 2016, accessed March 8, 2017, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/in-the-heart-of-trump-country. For a full list and analysis of this coverage see Elizabeth Catte, "There is No Neutral There: Appalachia as...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...generations of Georgians could abandon the old trade geography to imagine a new, homogeneous kind of space with farms, settlements, and no Native Americans. Richly conceived and well expressed, the...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...knew we were not making a film for just one group of people who were already convinced. We knew that El Sol could use this film as a fundraiser, and...