Literature

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Stop Standing Under Understanding

Eduardo Martinez with a poem of questions from inside the walls

By Eduardo Martinez with photo by Starr Sariego /

Making Sense

Jordan Blumetti reflects on “Indigo,” the latest book from one of the South’s greatest living writers, Padgett Powell.

By Jordan Blumetti with photoillustrations by Stacy Reece /

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An unexpected inheritance came too late to raise her mother from poverty, but not too late for the state of Tennessee to claim the money for itself. A first-person look at how Southern states stack the deck against their working poor.

Visionary in all weathers, Louisville’s Emma Aprile finds a way to carry hope through life’s balancing act.

Old Crow Medicine Show leader Ketch Secor shares his hopes about what the removal of the battle flag will mean for his children.

Maud Newton’s upcoming book, “Ancestor Trouble,” explores the problems of family, how we define who we are, and how to truly reckon with our pasts.

An author and playwright navigates her Southern roots and Jewish identity in a world that often saw them as contradictions.

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Tammy’s about to get her associate’s degree and she’s got a chance to get a real job, with a desk and a chair and vacation days. There’s just this one thing…