Contents

The Gorgeous Unstoppable Tennessee Williams
And how he changed our sense of beauty.
By John Patrick Shanley

The Fork and the Shrink
Kierkegaard was a psychologist of sorts, but unlike Freud he believed in God.
By Gordon Marino

Emily Dickinson, Gardener
In her own time she was better known for her hydrangeas.
By Tom Christopher

Brother from the Richmond Planet
Crusading journalist John Mitchell Jr. took on the lynchers.
By Donna M. Lucey

Murder on Foot
The walking tour goes digital.
By Craig Lambert

Sister Poets
In China they were called cainü.
By Steve Moyer

Our Founding Novelist
Charles Brockden Brown mixed spontaneous combustion with Gothic horror.
By Anne Trubek

The War 150 Years Later As the sesquicentennial nears, a selection of past, present, and future humanities projects.
By David Skinner

Curio

Of Stevedores and Book Slingers

Sprechen Sie Texan?

Hey, Who You Callin’ a Jacobin?