I’ll Take You There is a collaborative guide to places in Nashville shaped by social justice work
…shaped by grassroots resistance to power and struggles for justice. Learotha Williams Jr. Photo: DaShawn Lewis Thurber was a Ph.D. candidate in the Community Research and Action program at Vanderbilt…
Stephanie Danler’s memoir disrupts the usual narrative structures found in stories of addiction
…and details those in-between borderless spaces, the places where there are opportunities for tending, for care — and, maybe, for love stories. [This article originally appeared on June 3, 2020.]…
Josephine Caminos Oría’s Sobremesa celebrates family and food
Some books will make you hungry; some will make you want to cook even if you don’t love cooking; and some will make you wish you’d been born in another…
Book Excerpt: I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World
Self-Portrait as Getting Drunk Dialed by God Oh to be shameless as a bachelorette party singing “Friends in Low Places” as they cruise 12 South in a pedal tavern. Maybe…
Ross King details the book industry of the Italian Renaissance
The irony was exquisite reading Ross King’s The Bookseller of Florence on an iPad using Kindle software. Photo: Melanie King In this history book about books for book nerds, the…
With gratitude for Edward Hirsch and his expansive body of work
With over 2.7 million lives lost worldwide in just one year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic — nearly 550,000 in the United States alone — I can think of few…
