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EMILIANO ZAPATA COMES TO SAN ANTONIO

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  My mother saw the border as a metaphor for possibility. To her, the border wasn’t geography, but poetry. Sometimes the border is a...

By Bárbara Renaud González

TOO LARGE A THING TO CONTAIN

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  Newly returned to Little Rock, this year I will attempt to catch the Southern vernacular on the air—the sounds that warp my senses and have...

By Frederick McKindra

THE QUESTION OF DINNER: A CONVERSATION WITH TUNDE WEY

A video supplement to “The Question of Dinner” by John T. Edge, published in the Spring 2018 issue. “At the end of a meal, people expect to leave having had a good time. At the end of these dinners,...

Doing Nothing

It was devastating to find how much I enjoy quiet. For a person whose life is consumed by music, it felt like blasphemy.

By Julien Baker

FLAT WITH A VIEW

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  Up above, the electric Vodacom sign flashed through its paces of red and white, red and white, tingeing everything with pink light and...

By Meghan Tear Plummer

IF THE BLUES ARE YOUR HUNTER

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  Songs: Ohia is the name under which musician Jason Molina—Ohio-born and bred, with deep West Virginia roots—performed and released his first...

By William Boyle

QUIET, PLEASE

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  I think often of escaping from noise. Wherever I am, I like to sit by windows, doors. I like knowing how to get away when I need to get away.

By Leesa Cross-Smith

YOU HOLD ON TO WHAT YOU NEED

Mary Gauthier and the art of writing war. She’s a queer Opry star and recovering heroin addict turned postwar Virgil. A surrogate of sorts for the new war narrative. “I have done this process on...

By Odie Lindsey

The Hitchhiker from “Emergency”

It all fits together that way, that years later the narrator would be a novelist, that the character he’d almost forgotten was real would walk up and say hello. It feels a little like a final...

By Wyatt Williams

LOOK, LISTEN, AND LINGER

A  Kentucky Music Issue web-exclusive: a  conversation with director Vic Rawlings. “Lee Sexton is a living master with four tracks on  Mountain Music of Kentucky , a...

By Walker Reiss

BLUEGRASS BREAKDOWN

A Kentucky Music Issue web exclusive: J. D. Wilkes’s Jackson Purchase. The richness of the Jackson Purchase has served so many artists and thinkers over the years, the least of which...

By J. D. Wilkes

A REPORT FULL OF HOLES, A LITTLE COMMEMORATIVE EDITION

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Less than two months before C.D. Wright passed away, the Center for Documentary Studies had the honor of welcoming her as a featured panelist at...

By C. D. Wright