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.
Thomas Merton
About
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) is arguably the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century. For more than a quarter century he lived at the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery near Bards-town, Kentucky. This issue includes three of his previously unpublished poems.