Points South

John Jeremiah Sullivan does something about that goddamn devil

Daniel Wolff reports from Desolation Row

King of Mississippi, a poem by Sandra Beasley

Brian Boyles among the ambassadors of New Orleans

Belle Gone Bad, by Lynn Stuart Parramore

Janis F. Kearney on Daisy Bates

Photographs by Paul Kwilecki, introduction by Tom Rankin

The Passion of the Passion, by Bobby Ampezzan

Group Fitness, by Roxane Gay

Amanda Petrusich on Ballads, Blues, & Bluegrass

Kris Kristofferson confronts his mortality, by Holly Gleason

Richard J. Alley sails from Memphis

A Susurration of Palms, by Thomas Swick

Frad Bahnson forages in North Carolina's postapocalyptic backwoods

Local Fare: John T. Edge explores Atlanta's immigrant agriculture

Features

FOG COUNT
Bodies in Motion and at Rest in a West Virginia Prison
by Leslie Jamison

RAVAGED BEAUTY
Photographs of the Texas Gulf Coast
by J Henry Fair

WELCOME TO SOUL CITY
The Remains of a Black Power Utopia in North Carolina
by Amanda Shapiro

HOGZILLA
They're Not Like Deer
by Dan Baum

THIS! IS! YELLING!
The Art and Science of Screaming “Stella!”
by Elena Passarello

A SUITCASE NAMED DESIRE
Victor Campbell Remembers His Life with Tennessee Williams
by Joshua Clark

WAVE FUNCTION COLLAPSE
a story by Jamie Quatro

Art by Laura Findlay, Gilda Louise Aloisi, Emily Kinni, Mark Cohen, Amanda Kowalski, Tierney Gearon, Justin Forbes, Alexis Vasilikos, Gordon Parks, Chuck Travers, Katherine Adams, Susan Worsham, Ben Couvillion, Mark Tucker, Beate Sass, Paul Kwilecki, Nathan Alexander Ward, Greg Allikas, David de Lossy, Dushan Milic, Bastienne Schmidt

Cover: "Tim" (2009) by Laura Findlay