Tepper talks with Ploughshares editor and writer DeWitt Henry about memoir-writing, his family history, and the impact of war.

David S. Wills goes to war with his former employer, and then retreats.

Arielle Bernstein considers how New Media is shaping cultural discourse today

Eric Beeny considers Star Trek‘s current relevance to future human history.

Andy Johnson experiences racism for the first time and can find no adequate way to fault it at all.

On December 8, 1984, south of Coupeville on Whidbey Island, the FBI surrounded Robert Mathews’ Greenbank farm house…

From death threats to lawsuits… the dangers of blogging abroad.

Novelist Steve Yarbrough discusses murder, affairs, that charming Southern accent, and how to be a good neighbor when you have a party line telephone.

As Alison Aucoin left her father’s funeral she found herself face to face with an incredibly foul gas station bathroom, an old black man with a cane as the personification of the lingering trauma of the Jim Crow South, the ghost of her father’s ridiculously antiquated and twisted version of chivalry, and fresh unexpected grief.