The State of Michigan has stopped providing free bottled water to Flint residents; Here’s why that’s unconscionable
By Connor Coyne Photo by Brittany Greeson The latest hit job upon the people of Flint by Michigan Gov. Rick [...]
This Is Why I’m Ready to Walk: Letter from a University of Michigan-Flint Lecturer
By Scott Atkinson Photograph by Erin Emory This is why I teach. I’m perhaps halfway through my digital stack of [...]
As the four-year anniversary of the Flint Water Crisis approaches, Flint residents are still suffering, and the state continues to pull its resources
By Jiquanda Johnson Photo by Brittany Greeson Each week Tia Simpson travels throughout the city of Flint, Michigan, to restock [...]
A Flint resident on the good, the bad, and the complicated in Netflix’s gritty new docu-drama, ‘Flint Town’
By Connor Coyne If you had asked me a few weeks ago what the words “Flint Town” meant to me, [...]
Resisters of the Rust Belt: A Photo Essay by Garrett MacLean
VIEW SLIDESHOW When Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the United States, [...]
Rightsizing Thanksgiving in the Rust Belt
As the jobs have vanished, as education and employment have lured our young people out-of-state and overseas, our holidays have been transformed as well.
A Blue Bird Lands In Flint And We Do Not Call It Redemption
Even though this is about a bird – miraculous blue jewel, transfiguration in a city backyard – it begins with a crash in the middle of the night.
From the Editor: We’re All In This Together
Last summer I was at the Soggy Bottom Bar in downtown Flint, Michigan for the launch of Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology, which I had edited, and author Aaron Foley and I were doing the very cool thing of signing each other’s books.
Will The Water Crisis Finally Secure More Than Band-Aids For Flint?
On a rented yellow school bus ambling east on I-69, Hudie Langston shifted in his vinyl seat, turned toward the two women chatting nearby, and said what a lot of people in Flint have been thinking for months.
Stories from Nowhere, Michigan: An Interview With Christine Rice
In her debut novel Swarm Theory, Chicago writer Christine Rice reimagines a landscape from her past, a mash-up of disintegrating farmland and emerging suburb that most Midwesterners will instantly recognize...
A People’s Park
“Hey! What’re y’all doin?” he yelled across the empty park. A pint-sized paper bag sat on the sidewalk next to his smooth-soled tan work boots.
Belt Books at Chicago’s Printers Row Lit Fest, the Cleveland Flea, and more
Publishing is a funny business. Here we are, with a warehouse full of books, ready to sell them to you. But doing [...]