Can Clarksdale find its mojo again?
Bubba’s campaign had been a message of Christianity combined with doomsday prophecy
Missisippi
Tuesday
Saturday
Elvis’s cousin Brandon delays marriage months before his election
Brandon Presley is the Democratic candidate for Mississippi governor
Friday
An armed society is a polite society
A little ditty from Mississippi illustrates the point
Monday
The Optimist’s Daughter at fifty
A rich and daring novel reminds us that memory must be given its due
Friday
Is it fair to compare inner-city crime to the Global South?
The current levels and psychic costs of violent crime in many US cities are, well, criminal
Monday
Is caste the American class system?
Only in fiction did Faulkner dare to reveal what he knew about the code of caste
Monday
The coronavirus class divide
Who actually thinks rural Americans are breaking quarantine for sport rather than necessity?
