In a new memoir, NFL star Michael Oher writes about life before The Blind Side
In the middle of Michael Oher’s rookie season as an offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, a big-budget Hollywood movie based on his life premiered to rave reviews—but he was…
In Asleep, Molly Caldwell Crosby examines the human side of an epidemic
…Crosby: Finding the case studies for Asleep was a major challenge. Early in the project I realized that to portray this kaleidoscope of a disease, I’d need to follow a…
In his stunning first novel, poet Philip Stephens journeys deep into the Missouri Ozarks
During the late Cambrian, shallow seas covered much of the land between the Rockies and Appalachia, their beds thickening with the muck of life. Later, as South America crashed into…
With relentless fascination, Bob Cowser Jr. recounts the murder of a childhood friend, and the trial and execution—two decades later—of her killer
In the fall of 1979, Bob Cowser Jr. was a nine-year-old baseball enthusiast in the tiny town of Greenfield, a suburb of Martin, Tennessee, when his friend Cary Ann Medlin…
Stephen Lyn Bales explores a classic quest for the ivory-billed woodpecker
“Since the early 1900s, one question and one question alone has swirled around the largest woodpecker to live in our part of the world,” Knoxville naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales writes…
Roy Blount Jr.’s punsy paean to the Marx Brothers’ greatest film defies easy categorization
At first glance, Vanderbilt graduate Roy Blount Jr.’s Hail, Hail, Euphoria! Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made appears to be an essay, perhaps…
