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An Epic Poet’s “Fatal Row” with “Ezrapoundism”

Biography of Black Elk Speaks author is an underdog story unafraid to show stark realities.

The Hooten Hollers

“Maybe it’s more accurate to say that John’s vocal cords are the conduits by which the ghosts of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters or Howlin’ Wolf communicate.”

Bad Faith

“Wheeler’s characters bend and stretch their conceptions of self to fit these places and situations, dipping their feet in the often boiling waters of possibility.”

The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century

Couch’s book is a revitalization effort in itself. She writes to look forward, to focus on the good that’s coming for the region.

Two Roadmaps, One Planet

There are two diverging paths to handling environmental problems. Do we understand the solutions well enough to choose?

A Presidential Haunting

Chatty ghosts, departed sons make Saunders’ contribution to the Lincoln canon worth its words.

Authors to Themselves?

When the Ulrich Museum rolled out the (proverbial) shag carpet for a deep fake AI film and its making-of documentary

Non-believers Welcome

A Pilgrimage to Eternity gives words to doubt and wonder as Egan ponders what we lose when we distance ourselves from religion.

What a Concept: Hogs and History Abound on Wolf Hunter

Living folk heroes from southwest Missouri revive half-century-old tunes of their homeland

God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right

“Barrett-Fox allows a group so widely despised to emerge as human and complicated like the rest of us.”

Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi

At the newspaper where I worked in college, we were taught that a story’s lead was a story’s everything—This. Happened. The lead was the whole and the start, an incision through which a writer’s needle and thread might penetrate, stringing along all the details to...

Hard Truths

Marc McKee’s voice, as it rings through Consolationeer, is equal parts abstract artist, hi-fidelity folk singer, and postmodern priest. The fourth and latest poetry collection from the University of Missouri professor sums our modern spiritual plagues: the desire to...