Though our house had no special distinction, she had chosen our porch for the delivery, heaving across the dusty tiles, trusting us.
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The Porch Birth
Where’s the line between what deserves protection and what is deemed disposable?
Feeling Welcome and at Home
Reflections on Berea College
In Lessons from the Foothills, Gretchen Dykstra digs into Berea College’s past and present, from its 19th-century founding by John G. Fee, a Kentucky-born preacher with a dream of an integrated school that served Appalachians, to the school’s myriad challenges today.
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Healing the Healers
A psychiatrist urges healthcare workers to bring their full humanity to the workplace
Part memoir, part argument, and part self-help manual, How Do You Feel? by Dr. Jessi Gold challenges dangerous assumptions, common to the public and healthcare workers alike, about what it means to be a good doctor or nurse.
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America’s Promise
Frank X Walker’s Load in Nine Times gives voice to enslaved and enslaver in Civil War-era Kentucky
Load in Nine Times is Frank X. Walker’s poetic exploration of American life in the period surrounding the Civil War. The collection takes Kentucky as its geographical framework, speaking through enslaved mothers, fathers, and children and masters and mistresses.
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The Joy of Cookbooks
With a little imagination, anything seems possible
I’m into porn. Cookbook porn. It’s a terrible habit.
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Betrayal and Justice
By the Fire We Carry tells a story of Native American land lost and regained
By the Fire We Carry, by Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle, tells how the Five Tribes of frontier history (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, and Seminole) were dispossessed first of their Southeastern homelands, then of their reservation lands in Oklahoma — until finally, against the odds, they won back their treaty rights in court.
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