Issue 06: Hinterlands

In Issue 06, as always, The New Territory magazine crystallizes “the Midwest” out of the idea of “Hinterlands” and into knowable pieces. Daniel Tyx tours small towns trying new ways to keep their community running (pg 81). Steven Gerkin shares Midwest-born crime novels that were anything but Midwest nice (pg 25). Olivia Exstrum was a child when the U.S. government raided a packing plant in her hometown. She now revisits the event with clarity, wisdom and unavoidable comparisons to how we treat immigrants today. Finally, Eli Reichman’s documentary of a farm family in North Dakota shaped the theme of this issue. How does life outside of the public eye differ from what we expect? His photographs let the land and people speak for themselves (pg 93).

Each feature is timeless, as is the literature by M. Drew Williams, Elijah Burrell, Molly Wierman, and John Andrews.

Thanks for supporting the journalists and artists of The Lower Midwest. We hope you love their work in this issue as much as we do.

Cover photo by Eli Reichman.

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