A Publication of Humanities Tennessee

The Curvature of the World

…Hadley Baxter, a scandal-ridden actress who lucks into the chance to portray Marian onscreen more than 60 years after her famous flight, thereby salvaging Hadley’s career and possibly pivoting her…

The Cost of Healing

…stretches of her family history, she also searches for the kind of belonging that has always seemed to elude her. When traditional family ties fray — here, a legacy of…

Multiple Souths

…to any race, culture, religion, or ethnicity. We are aberrations or unicorns, rumors whispered among nosey neighbors.” In 20 essays that combine the literary tools of memoir, reportage, poetry, and…

She Found Ways to Be Fascinating

…she loved you, you couldn’t shake her. But you couldn’t earn your way into her heart either. So if she loved you, it made you a kind of royalty.” Carmen…

Resisting a Truce with the Unknown

…of her family’s lore with the legend-heavy history of her South Carolina homeland, never resting too comfortably from any fixed position. Animated by equal measures of rigorous self-awareness and ample…

Polished Jewels

…learned to read.”  The natural histories complement and enlarge the personal ones. Renkl’s wry appraisal of both human and nonhuman animals is affectionate yet unsentimental. From the Nashville suburbs where…

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