Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...appearance of listlessness, numbness, and a general lack of energy. . . . It produces protracted insomnia and may lead to temporary insanity." In short, marijuana was "intensely harmful."31"A Yarn...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...and architectural decay. The soundscape intensifies the experience. Bey worked with vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri to articulate the narrative perspective of “Evergreen” where the camera does not reflect a...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...American construction and real estate executive, came on the Atlanta market for $675,000. The listing video characterizes Russell's home as a hub for both real estate transactions, political strategy sessions,...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
Introduction This here tale begins in the summer of that year, whatever year it was . . . The year don't matter. The national situation don't even matter, because even...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
How To Navigate We’ve arranged Stand & Witness as a guided tour. We recommend that you move through the exhibition according to the numbered tour stops or “hotspots.” To start...
Editors
...Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Award in non-fiction. Prof. Anderson’s research centers upon public policy, how racial inequality and racism...
August, 1959: Morning Service
...and the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Published in Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 2000). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 6 December...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...down the channel to listen for the baby's dreams — all years after the whorehouses, the fires, Reconstruction and true religion came, after Whitman said his piece and left the...
Sweep
...has died form each class. Seamless gray sky, horns from the four-lane, the lot’s oil slicks rainbowing and dimpling with rain. I have been home for three days, listening to...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...him, he asked, "Who is playing the other guitar?" He darted and slurred, a syncopation, a waltz evolving to jig. By slowing the record down and listening, a phrase at...