American South

Never-Ending Nostalgia: Who and What Inspired Willa Cather

Benjamin Taylor on the Early Years of America's Chronicler of the Great Plains

 
By Benjamin Taylor  November 15, 2023
Reckonings

How Two Versions of a Family Story Sparked a Writer’s Quest for Truth

By Grace Elizabeth Hale  November 8, 2023
Family Histories

Anita Gail Jones on Crafting Fiction From Family Heirlooms

By Anita Gail Jones  July 27, 2023
The Hub

Watch Jericho Brown in the upcoming PBS documentary series Southern Storytellers.

By Literary Hub  July 12, 2023
Civil Rights

Chronicle of a Battle Foretold: How One Town Went to War Over Desegregation

By Rachel Louise Martin  July 5, 2023
Southern literature

Katy Simpson Smith on Writing a Southern Woman Louder Than Herself

By Katy Simpson Smith  April 18, 2023
On Race

Confronting the South’s Tradition of Racist Terror

By Ousmane Power-Green  November 3, 2022
Clothing

Julia Reed on the Memories Woven Into Well-Worn Clothes

By Julia Reed  September 26, 2022
Cooking

What It Means To Be a Southern Chef As An Indian Immigrant

By Vishwesh Bhatt  August 16, 2022
New Books Network

Kevin McIlvoy on the Periodic Reemergence of Ghost Stories

By New Books Network  June 25, 2021
Otherppl

Michael Bible on Writing the Sort of Character Who Would’ve Stormed the Capitol

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 3, 2021
On Race

The city depicted in To Kill a Mockingbird just elected its first Black mayor.

By Aaron Robertson  September 2, 2020
On Race

Down Through the Faulkner Bloodline, Pride and Racial Guilt Commingled

By Michael Gorra  August 24, 2020
On Race

The Only Successful Coup in the US Began as a Campaign to Curb Black Voting Rights

By Lawrence Goldstone  May 20, 2020
Race

Did Medgar Evers’ Killer Go Free Because of Jury Tampering?

By Jerry Mitchell  February 24, 2020
Civil Rights

The Private Cost of Public Heroism: On Rosa Parks’ Life in Detroit

By Susan Reyburn  January 28, 2020
The Hub

Oxford American, one of the great lit mags of the American South, gets a facelift.

By Aaron Robertson  September 11, 2019
Race

Growing Up At Ground Zero of American Apartheid

By Greg Bottoms  May 1, 2019
Excerpts

How America Remembers Emmett Till

By Elliott Gorn  November 15, 2018
Features

How Slavery Lives On in the American Prison-Industrial Complex

By Jabari Asim  October 16, 2018
Essay

All About My Mother: Brandon Taylor on Love, Rage, and Family

By Brandon Taylor  August 1, 2018
Essay

Who Can Fictionalize Slavery?

By Katy Simpson Smith  March 30, 2016
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