A Publication of Humanities Tennessee

Same War, Same General

…Yeah, right. I’m a good white liberal Yankee. But as I traced 150 years of history in four American cities, I had to grapple with the history of slavery —…

Surviving the Curse of “Nowville”

…are getting exponentially richer — in some cases helping corrode democracy by allowing misinformation to proliferate through massive networks at the same time. Seems bad! I will say this: Cool…

Another Way to Be

…wear the boxiest suit and tie every day and still understand that you’re playing a role to a certain extent, because all of us are, all day and every day….

The Past Is Never Dead

…final words on the Faulkner family legacy in an autobiography, Every Day by the Sun. Wells observes, “To those born without it genius can be a forbidding heritage.” But Dean’s…

A Glorious and Invisible Map

…is married to Douglas, a high school history teacher. They are a perfectly ordinary, generally happy couple approaching 40 with a small assortment of vague regrets. He wants to learn…

Following the Story Wherever It Goes

…at a book festival nearly 30 years ago, as a fledgling artist who had just released a book titled Tuesday, was in Nashville at the Southern Festival of Books. Shortly…

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