Volume 3 | Summer 2020
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2020 Birthday Lecture: Fear and Loathing in Genre New England
Now, in the heat of summer, isn’t the best time for this metaphor, but soon enough it will be: the…
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Interview with John Whitbourn
The author of A Dangerous Energy expands upon his outlook, methods and future works.
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A Lost Colleague
He left one day without saying goodbye.I cherished the moments that we shared.He must have known my heart would wail…
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A Team of Mules
My grandad’s father John Speed Stephens Jr. was the son of an Irish immigrant, and as a fourteen-year-old, he became…
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Book Review: “White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege in a Racially Divided America”
Margaret Hagerman spent years in the wilds of privileged white America, talking with kids, going to their soccer games, etc.…
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Children
My daughter has my hurt in her. She lives with it better than I have. I hid it, softened it,…
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Book Review: “Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity”
In September 2019, I took a group of students to the annual Prairie Festival at The Land Institute in Salina,…
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Book Review: “An Accident of Blood”
Margaret Hagerman spent years in the wilds of privileged white America, talking with kids, going to their soccer games, etc.…
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Mingo Dreaming
It’s hard to be a city at night, sleeping along this big river. So much wakes youfrom slumber—mill whistles, sirens,…
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2019 Birthday Lecture: The Countercultural Vision of History
Ishmael Reed is back in the news these days. The writer, now eighty-one years old, got national attention for his…