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“You Can’t Leave Your Folk at the Door.” On Queer Life in Appalachia

“You Can’t Leave Your Folk at the Door.” On Queer Life in Appalachia

Rae Garringer Talks to Elandria Williams in Knoxville, Tennessee

By Rae Garringer | October 17, 2024

Love in the Time of Hillbilly Elegy: On JD Vance’s Appalachian Grift

Love in the Time of Hillbilly Elegy: On JD Vance’s Appalachian Grift

Justin B. Wymer Knows a Snake When He Sees One

By Justin B. Wymer | August 27, 2024

JD Vance is the Toxic Byproduct of America’s Obsession with Bootstrap Narratives

JD Vance is the Toxic Byproduct of America’s Obsession with Bootstrap Narratives

Alissa Quart on the Art of the Deal of the Hillbilly

By Alissa Quart | July 18, 2024

Local Outsiders: On Growing Up Black in Appalachia

Local Outsiders: On Growing Up Black in Appalachia

Katrina M. Powell Explores the Long History of Migration and Displacement in a Majority White Region

By Katrina M. Powell | June 10, 2024

Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

Bobi Conn Explores Her Appalachian Family’s Long Tradition of Unreliable Narrators and Morally Gray Characters

By Bobi Conn | May 22, 2024

The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

Ed Simon Demystifies and Reclaims Pittsburghese

By Ed Simon | May 15, 2024

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Thicker Than Water: A Brief History of Family Violence in Appalachian Kentucky

By Angie Romines | January 10, 2024

"Tender Publics," a Poem by Lindsay Turner

By Lindsay Turner | October 5, 2023

The Rituals of Death and Dying in Central Appalachia

By Stacy Jane Grover | June 21, 2023

Idra Novey on the Conjuring of Haunting Characters

Idra Novey on the Conjuring of Haunting Characters

“To come convincingly to life, characters have to consist of mixed-up inextricable elements.”

By Idra Novey | March 17, 2023

On Disrupting a Cherished Musical Tradition and Creating New Appalachian Ballads

On Disrupting a Cherished Musical Tradition and Creating New Appalachian Ballads

“No music will live if it is treated like a museum piece.”

By Elizabeth Ford | October 21, 2022

Tess of the D'Urbervilles">The Perpetual Timeliness of <emTess of the D'Urbervilles">

Tess of the D'Urbervilles">The Perpetual Timeliness of Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Janet Beard on Reading and Rereading the Thomas Hardy Classic

By Janet Beard | October 21, 2021

Stop calling JD Vance an “author”—he’s a corporatist grifter.

Stop calling JD Vance an “author”—he’s a corporatist grifter.

By Jonny Diamond | July 2, 2021

The Existential Crisis Facing Newspapers Has Silenced Some of America’s Most Distressed Areas

The Existential Crisis Facing Newspapers Has Silenced Some of America’s Most Distressed Areas

Alan Maimon on Covering Eastern Kentucky in an Age of Hyperlocal News and Pageviews

By Alan Maimon | June 4, 2021

Casting “Place” as a Character: On the Essence of Rural America

Casting “Place” as a Character: On the Essence of Rural America

Beyond Hillbilly Elegy">Gigi Georges Recommends Nonfiction that Moves
Beyond Hillbilly Elegy

By Gigi Georges | May 27, 2021

Trashlands">COVER REVEAL: Alison Stine’s <emTrashlands">

Trashlands">COVER REVEAL: Alison Stine’s Trashlands

Trying to Survive at the Edges of the Post-Apocalyptic World

By Alison Stine | May 26, 2021

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