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IN A FOREST GREEN

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. From the moment I heard the song, the repetition of “ more time, more time” got stuck in my head—as I was washing my face at night, as we...

By Leesa Cross-Smith

BOB ON BOB

In a 2017 interview with Bill Flanagan, Bob Dylan held forth on his views regarding Don McLean’s “American Pie,” a song that I have loathed with an almost inchoate malice since first encountering it...

By Elizabeth Nelson

THE QUESTION OF DIXIE

A video supplement to “Dixie Vodka” by John T. Edge, published in the Summer 2018 issue. “General Beauregard Dixie Vodka Set to March Across South” announced a September 25, 2013, press release. One...

By Ethan Payne

PROPERTY HUNTING

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Writing is lonely work—because of the solitude, but also because it does not quiet the mind the way physical toil does. Instead, as I exert...

By Frederick McKindra

EAU CLAIRE

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. The pilgrimage to The Store is a ritual exercise of re-centering that anchors me in something common and universal; strangers converge at a...

By Julien Baker

FIRST PEOPLE

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. When I arrived, about thirty students—ages six to fifteen—were heavily bundled against the cold and standing on a low, concrete stage built...

By Meghan Tear Plummer

YOU CAN FIND YOUR VOICE BY LOVING THINGS

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Even when Ridley pans a movie, he does it with heart. His takedown of Luc Besson’s The Messenger is written as “a short story that imagines a...

By William Boyle

SOUND & COLOR & ESCAPE

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. In the spring and summer, I make a habit of sitting on our deck in the mornings and as far into the afternoons as the Kentucky sun, heat,...

By Leesa Cross-Smith

POINT D’EAU

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. “Point d’eau” gives viewers an unusual vantage on the difficult and improvisational lives of these migrants by focusing closely, respectfully, on...

By Nastassia Kantorowicz Torres

IN THE SHADOW OF THE RANCH

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. My father was not so different than Gerty. He was a King Ranch man through and through. He spoke English and Spanish as one...

By Bárbara Renaud González

MY LOCAL GAY BAR

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Going to a gay bar was an expedient, in that presumably most patrons would be available. I hoped that meeting someone would be easier there....