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With a visual love letter to Atlanta, reflections on Cormac McCarthy’s haunted characters, a surreal short story starring an immortal Miles Davis, and so much more, you don’t want to miss the Spring 2023 Issue.

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Issue 120, Spring 2023

Editor's Letter: "Every Brush Stroke, a Breath"

For this issue, we wanted a fresh start borne of our triumphs and our challenges. And we wanted the issue to feel like a breath.

By Danielle A. Jackson
Issue 120, Spring 2023

The Things We Leave Behind

Whose rooms were we sleeping in? What had the monstrous piece of furniture seen? The building itself seemed to want to tell us.

By Madeline Weinfield
Web Feature

When a Mystery Becomes a Memoir

The most captivating narrative thread in Diary of a Misfit is Casey Parks’s own.

By Jason Kyle Howard
Issue 119, Winter 2022

Future Roots

Where do you go, musically, when you want to create something new that still embraces aspects of the past?

By Larry Kay

  

 
 
 
Issue 115, Winter 2021

Toward the Sun

Photographs by Kwame Brathwaite

By Kwame Brathwaite

“Reckoning comes before reconciliation and often begins at the table.”

—Alice Randall

Podcast

If You Would Know Us

KaToya Ellis Fleming investigates the backlash and legacy of violence caused by the 1898 Wilmington Massacre in North Carolina and a performance by the American folk duo Birds of Chicago.

Half My World

Tess Taylor explores Anne Spencer's poetry and a live performance by Lucy Dacus. This episode marks the first time Anne Spencer's voice will be broadcast outside of the Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum.

The Borderlands

A dispatch from the Rio Grande Valley and a performance by Adia Victoria

Eyes on the South

Atlanta Signage: Looking Up

By EWANG

You are Where you're Supposed to Be

By Billie Carter-Rankin

A Way Home

By Jay Simple

Canopy Loss

By Colleen Mullins

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