In Our Lightning Past
/M.O. Walsh, author of the bestselling novel My Sunshine Away, brings us an essay on fishing from an upcoming collection, Gather at the River, in which 25 contemporary authors tell fishing tales.
Read MoreEssays, opinions, commentary, criticism, and fiction from Southern writers.
M.O. Walsh, author of the bestselling novel My Sunshine Away, brings us an essay on fishing from an upcoming collection, Gather at the River, in which 25 contemporary authors tell fishing tales.
Read MoreFor four years, Athens, Georgia, musicians and activists have used every MLK holiday weekend to cross the lines of genre and race to make music together. Bertis Downs tells us about his turn at the mic last month.
Read MoreA mind-numbingly dismissive quote from the president’s son prompts our teachers to write a full-throated defense of their co-workers — and their noble profession.
Read MoreWhen LaRue Cook left his editor’s job at ESPN in Connecticut and returned home to Tennessee, he made a living as an Uber driver — and wrote the upcoming book, Man in the (Rearview) Mirror, from which we excerpt this essay.
Read MoreOur editor Chuck Reece steps into our Thursday columns with some thoughts on keeping things together when the world feels like it’s falling apart.
Read MoreIntroducing David Prince — former Kentucky Council for the Social Studies Teacher of the Year — by day; Laid Back Country Picker by night.
Read MoreNorth Georgia writer Candice Dyer took an elderly couple to vote. This is the story of how one couple met resistance from poll workers in November.
Read MoreA new Amazon documentary dives into the triumphs and trials of the mandolin player who changed the direction of an old Southern form: bluegrass.
Read MoreFifteen years ago, Sandlin Gaither took a job tending bar at the Grey Eagle Tavern, a music venue in Asheville, North Carolina. He still serves drinks — but he also has become a photographer of national renown for his portraits of the musicians who play the beloved nightclub.
Read MoreHistorical fiction is a thing. Why not music? Country songwriters Elizabeth Elkins and Vanessa Olivarez, collectively known as Granville Automatic, have turned Nashville’s history of deception, debauchery, love, and war into an album.
Read MoreAll Y’all Social Justice Collective’s Rebekah Cordova joins Adam Jordan and Todd S. Hawley to build a strategy for Southern teachers to address anti-Semitism social justice.
Read MoreThere’s no time quite like the holidays to indulge in drinks central to longtime — or new — traditions. Enjoy some classic(ish) drinks and some completely new spins on old favorites.
Read MoreIn the spring of 1967, U.S. Sens. Robert Kennedy of New York and Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania traveled to the Mississippi Delta to assess the effectiveness of the Johnson administration’s War on Poverty programs. The senators were stunned to witness the extremities of the state’s soul-crushing poverty, right in the middle of one of the wealthiest nations on earth.
Read MoreOn this Thanksgiving day, we are grateful for 20 years of the Southern Foodways Alliance working to change America’s vision of our region. A first-timer at this fall’s symposium explains how the SFA’s work moves our region into a better future.
Read MoreOur education columnists call for a movement to support raising pay for teachers across the South (and the rest of the nation, too, for that matter).
Read MoreAlthough the outcome of the Georgia governor’s race remains unclear, Southern black people proved they now have the money and power to gain real political influence, thanks to the rise of our region’s distinctive hip-hop culture.
Read MoreAs we head into next week’s elections amid accusations of voter suppression, historian Keri Leigh Merritt reminds us that the tactics have deep roots in Southern history.
Read MoreEllen Ann Fentress explains how black women and white women take very different approaches to politics in her home state.
Read MoreHarrison Key, one of the South’s funniest writers, offers an excerpt from his upcoming book, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?
Read MoreThe New Orleans museum’s latest exhibition not only brings Southern imagery into the 21st century, but also starts breaking down photography’s domination by white men.
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