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Rebecca Bengal

About

Rebecca Bengal is a contributing editor at this magazine. She is the author of Strange Hours (Aperture), and her writing has been published by the Paris Review, the Guardian, Vogue, and the Criterion Collection, among many others; her fiction appears most recently in Southern Cultures. Originally from western North Carolina, she lives in New York.

Articles

Issue 103, Winter 2018

That Chord!

Etta Baker rose before the sun to play guitar, an hour every morning.

By Rebecca Bengal
Issue 115, Winter 2021

Country Boy Gone City

The El Grotto is a neighborhood bar—beer, wine, records on the jukebox, fights on the regular, and sometimes, guns drawn.

By Rebecca Bengal
Issue 116, Spring 2022

Coda for Winfred Rembert

Working with a bevel, a pear shader, and an assortment of tools, some of which he made by hand, Rembert carved and rendered the tales of his life.

By Rebecca Bengal
Issue 119, Winter 2022

Will the Real Mr. Heartache Please Stand Up and Cry?

Paycheck carries the melody to a place that feels at once too much, too obvious, and yet totally startling and stunning.

By Rebecca Bengal
Issue 127, Winter 2024

The Sound of Music in Hawkins Bolden’s Scarecrows

The story of how and when the self-taught Memphis artist Hawkins Bolden began to make his enigmatic scarecrows and totem-like sculptures alters in the telling

By Rebecca Bengal