COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Editor’s Box
by Marc Smirnoff
South Toward Home:
A Message from the Desert
by Warwick Sabin
I Don’t Hate It!:
Larry King and Lady Gaga Are the Same!
by Jack Pendarvis
Dealer’s Choice:
Beyond the Horizon
by Hal Crowther
Local Fare:
Our Lady of Buford Highway
by John T. Edge
Culture:
I'm with Stupid
by Michael Parker
Travel:
A New Colonial Age
by Robert Zimmerman
Architecture:
Super Dome
by Alex V. Cook
Politics:
An Experiment in Reason
by Timothy Ferris
Towns & Cities:
The Malaise of Sprawl
by Bill Belleville
After the Storm:
Magical Madness
by Matthew Pitt
Literature:
Walker Percy's Dread Latter Days
by William Caverlee
Listings:
Ten Great Novels of the Apocalypse
by Kevin Brockmeier
After the Storm:
Rise Off Your Knees, New Orleans
by Anne Gisleson
Race:
Adaptation
by Solon Timothy Woodward
Southern Scenes
Photograph by Adam Ekberg
Commentary by Pico Iyer
Life 2050
A selection of original comics by various artists
FEATURES
Big Wood
Celebrating the Southern live oak—wherever you can find it.
by Andrew Furman
Boundary Makers
Measuring the land while glimpsing its destruction.
by Philip Sasser
POETRY
Diving Lesson, by Kitty Forbes
April & the Affront of Spring, by Kathy Davis
Genealogy, by Caki Wilkinson
Poetry, by David Lunde
THE FUTURE OF FICTION: VISIONS FROM 2050
Wargasm, by Patty Houston
National Anthem, by Victor LaValle
The Last Rehab, by Wendy Brenner
Twenty Hearts a Day, by James Whorton, Jr.
The Vicinity of the Sick, by M.O. Walsh
Do Not Enter the Memory, by Connie May Fowler
The Age of Happiness, by Nicholas Rombes
Maroon, by Susan Straight
Designer Emotion, by Charles Yu
Viral Free-Floating Critical Commentary, by Michael Martone
The Artificial Heart, by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Cover: “Schnecksville” (2005) by Greg Miller