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A Vietnamese Mardi Gras krewe.

The Black longshoremen of Mobile’s Banana Docks.

A meditation on rice and belonging.

This Food Issue isn’t just about what Southerners eat—it’s about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going.

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Mesha Maren

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Mesha Maren is the author of the novels Sugar Run, Perpetual West, and Shae.

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By Mesha Maren
Issue 104, Spring 2019

West Virginia in Transition

By Mesha Maren
Issue 125, Summer 2024

An Archive of One’s Own

I felt a resonance between the echoes in my novels and the elemental truths that Powers explores through their camera lens.

By Mesha Maren

SUGAR RUN

An excerpt from Mesha Maren's new novel Sugar Run . The woman leans forward, elbows on the table and black hair slicked back under a cap. She’s been there for three days, winning more than half...

By Mesha Maren

THE ONGOING FLUX

In West Virginia, a state where most everything comes at a cost, there are no simple solutions, and in his new story collection,  Allegheny Front, Matthew Neill Null does not shy away from...

By Mesha Maren