“The Blocks set fire to the 125-year-old legacy established two generations earlier by journalists who bore the same family name, but took their mission to be bulwarks against civic ignorance and misinformation more seriously than their descendants.”
By Jennifer Bannan It is 1975 and I’m 6 years old, and we’re on my dad’s swamp buggy in the [...]
By Anjali Sachdeva Olivia was always getting lost in the county park, though she had walked there at least three [...]
By T.N. Eyer We find the bust unboxed in the attic. Dust-covered and laden with spider webs, it probably hasn’t [...]
By Ed Simon “Our coal, thousands of people were saying, is the real basis of our national greatness.” Matthew Arnold, [...]
A poem by Jeffrey Nathan Marks.
Still Life with Lake, Lighthouse, Canadian Wildfire Muskegon, MI The long low sweep of the beam on the lake like [...]
Trump’s election was just one of a global turn rightward. Anti-democratic, illiberal, proto-fascist political movements were gaining ground internationally. Even still, eight years later, the Midwest and the Rust Belt are regarded as at the center and engine of the neo-reactionary and radical right-wing movements today.
Two poems by Joseph Goosey.
"We have not given up our traditions and our culture just because we are witches or LGBTQ! We are proud Appalachians; we are proud witches."
She made a choice in life, and I respect her right to choose to practice (or not practice) a religion that best suits her beliefs. That doesn’t mean I think a pastor should be speaking from a synagogue pulpit on Shabbat.
I’d recently finished my junior year of high school and was kicking around a few ideas on how to get out of Locksburg, a Central Pennsylvania backwater I’d wanted to flee ever since I was old enough to misspell its name.