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WHAT IS A MOUND?

Hancock’s universe is so detailed and varied that we had trouble narrowing our selection to just the five pieces we published in the Spring issue. Here, enjoy more of the Austin-based artist’s work,...

By Oxford American

CONVERSATIONS WITH CHRIS: QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, AND RECIPES FOR ALIEN ENCOUNTERS

A Conversation with Chris Offutt  “I’m not much of a cook, and my relationship with food is more like fuel for a machine. In other words, I have to eat in order to do stuff—like be alive and...

By Delilah Pope

ASSISTED LIVING

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  Auntie B doesn’t eat out on her own much because the cost to live in her residence includes food. She doesn’t miss cooking, cleaning, or...

By Osayi Endolyn

DIGITAL SPACE, ANALOG SOUL

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. CDS Shortwave is a new project from the Center for Documentary Studies’  DocX lab—a place for technology-influenced, imaginative thinking...

By Alexa Dilworth

HAIRY

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  In college I had long hair past my shoulders. I always got weird when it came time for the seniors to shave the freshmen’s heads. We did it...

By Eli Cranor

Web Feature

Beautifully Human

A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones “To me, she is beauty, she is grace, she is Miss America; America would never name her that, because she had hard features and was Black and proud, but she is what...

By Melinda Ruth

EASY TO COME HOME TO

A Conversation with Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg I understand that if you’re a record store, you have to sort things and folk is an easy category for us to fall into. But if you’re a music nerd...

By Lara Farrar

A PLACE TO CALL HOME

A video supplement to “Oaxaca Wreck” by John T. Edge, published in the Spring 2019 issue. “When I moved to Mississippi in 1995, I became a quick regular at Bottletree Bakery, just off the square,...

By Ethan Payne

NARCISSUS IN JAIL

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  If you’ve never been a young person on a big campaign, it’s hard to convey how thrilling the atmosphere is—part cult, part war, with stolen...

By Christopher Brunt

GHOST RELICS

For Sasha von Oldershausen, the physical landscape of West Texas is as rich in stories as the communities that populate it. “To walk along these paths feels like you’re accessing the long history of...

By Julia Thomas

ALOHA FROM HAWAII

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  Understand my irreverence was never situated in disrespect or unkindness. First he was a man and then he was a star and then he was a legend...

By Elizabeth Nelson

JOURNEY INTO DIRT

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  Looking for souvenirs to take back to your lovers, to prove you thought about them once in the midst of heat, toil, and hardly thinking about...

By Katy Simpson Smith