Points South

Diane Roberts on tribalism and football

Wendy Brenner falls for a magnificent love letter

Fatherhood: Three, by David Means

The Bootlegger and the Baby, by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly

Brian Boyles visits the wolves of Angola

Rendezvous at the Trist, by Anne Gisleson

Jeff Winkler goes hunting for humans

William Caverlee joins a circus

Balls of Fire, by Patrick Wensink

Stephanie Elizondo Griest on a death march

Build Me a School, by Susan Straight

Hal Crowther remembers Will Davis Campbell (1924-2013)

The Man on the Ladder, by Michael Patrick Welch

Local Fare: John T. Edge on the debts of pleasure

Features

THE RETURN OF ALLAN GURGANUS
by William Giraldi

THE SECRET LIFE OF NUNS
by Alex Mar

THE OWLS OF SOLOMON PLACE
by Pia Z. Ehrhardt

MUDDLING
a story by George Singleton

THE WEIGHT OF A FEATHER
by James Seay

SOMETHING INSIDE OF US
by Holly Haworth

BOMBS FOR SALE
by Nathan C. Martin

DAVE EVANS AND THE BLUEGRASS PALACE
by Lee Johnson

WHY WE ATE MUD
by Thomas Pierce

Omnivore

MAKE IT SCREAM, MAKE IT BURN
On James Agee's Cotton Tenants
by Leslie Jamison

THE ADAPTATION
A new book about the greatest fan film ever made
by Theodore Ross

Cooking with Chris:
BAKED POSSUM
by Chris Offutt

Art by Tierney Gearon, Bryan Schutmaat, Tristan Spinski, Aaron Canipe, Kathleen Robbins, Eirik Johnson, Tom Young, Walton Ford, Susan Worsham, Holly Lynton, Alec Soth, Pete Muller, Dornith Doherty, Magdalena Solé , Henry Groskinsky, Zack Smith, Karl Bissinger, Harry Taylor, Lordan Bunch, Keith Carter, Rob Fischer, Coke Wisdom O'Neal, Patrick Madigan, Carlan Tapp, Peter Van Agtmael, Aubrey Edwards, Alexi Hobbs, Eleanor Davis, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Allison Schulnik 

Cover: "Untitled 2000" by Tierney Gearon