Clyde Edgerton brilliantly captures the complex dance of music and race in a small Southern town in 1963
Like many Southern towns in 1963, Starke, North Carolina—the setting of Clyde Edgerton’s tenth novel—is divided by a railroad running north to south. East of the track is white and…
Ace Atkins—best known for his historical crime fiction—launches a contemporary series that captures a bleak Southern landscape
There’s an old saying in Tennessee and a few neighboring states, trotted out whenever new statistics are released on education funding, meth addiction, teen pregnancy and similar indicators of social…
Greg Lindsay and John D. Karsada envision a future of instant cities built around airports
In the Star Wars universe, Coruscant is a planet-wide city humming with constant air traffic and galactic commerce. Here on Earth, when cities and aircraft come together, there tend to…
David A. Weintraub explains the age of the universe—and the ways scientists have confirmed it
Some scientific questions about the universe remain a matter of theory and conjecture. (What existed before the big bang? What is dark matter? How will the universe end?) Other mysteries…
Holly Tucker talks with Chapter 16 about the macabre history of blood transfusion
By the second half of the seventeenth century, decades of scientific experimentation and invention had led to some of the greatest discoveries the world had seen since ancient Greece: gravity,…
Nashville author Holly Tucker explores the fascinating history of blood transfusion
In the seventeenth century, most “knowledge” of the human body and its workings came from Aristotle, Galen, and a few contemporary philosophers like René Descartes. All agreed that illness sprang…
