Salvation South

Why Will Maguire’s “Chain Lightning” is magical.

If you’re a Southern literature lover whose summertime reading aspirations don’t involve sand and sunburn, we have some travel ideas that don’t require sunscreen.

A few words on what Salvation South has become as we approach our second anniversary.

Drs. Jordan and Hawley—who’ve covered teaching with our editor for a decade—tell a story that belies the negative view of public-school teachers.

From North Georgia come two verses to honor a mountain matriarch, a woman of courage, who does what needs to be done.

Forty-five years in, Sherry’s life doesn’t amount to much. But then, she meets a pair of sisters almost twice her age who could redeem her. Except…

Three poems from the Cajun country of western Louisiana.

This week’s stories range from the hard life in Myrtle Beach to the good life—even during the pandemic—in a Birmingham suburb.

Legions took solitary walks in the woods. Multitudes baked bread. But when COVID hit Birmingham, five suburban guys formed a band. Meet the Kensingtons.

The prospect of coming out to his parents scared him to death. But they were fine with it. Anyway, that’s what it seemed like at first.

She inherited only three things from the grandmother she never knew: her forehead, her laugh, and the stories told by her three sons.

It’s peach season in the South, and that means cobblers, pies, ice cream—and a Georgia Sunset, a peachy concoction that’ll drop you right into the middle of the orchard.