Points South

Frances Mayes remembers her mother’s cooking

The Coded Life of William Thomas Prestwood, by Jeremy B. Jones

Anne Gisleson pays a visit to Carcosa

He Is Conan, by Ron Rash

Working, by Jamie Quatro

Our Faith in Horses, by Jamie Allen

Hal Crowther on the poetry of Charles Wright

Jay Jennings makes a discovery

Features

WALKING THE TORNADO LINE
by Justin Nobel

ART AGAINST THE WALL
by Stephanie Elizondo Griest

McELWEE’S CONFESSIONS
by William Giraldi

BUGABOO
a story by John McManus

Omnivore

BREAKING BREAD: Who is welcome at the welcome table?

GOING DEEPER WITH RED DOG
by John T. Edge

PINING, A DEFINITION
by Kevin Young

CODING AND DECODING DINNER
by Todd Kliman

A REVOLUTIONARY VEGETABLE
by Sara Roahen

RUDY LOMBARD’S FEAST OF FREEDOM
by Lolis Eric Elie

TRASH FOOD
by Chris Offutt

Poetry

Campsite, Shenandoah
by Jill McDonough

Swale
by Michael Klein

Silencer to the Heart While Jogging Through a Park
by Marcus Wicker

The Shrimpy Grits
by Thomas Sayers Ellis

Art by Ben Schonzeit, Carroll Cloar, Matt Armendariz, Robert Moran, Jeremy Chandler, Anna Beeke, Lynn Gessaman, Zoe Crosher, Lance Letscher, Amy Friend, Aline Smithson, Alexis Rockman, Maurice Sherif, Stefan Falke, Susan Harbage Page, Rigoberto A. Gonzalez, Tom Martin, Kevin Leighton, Ben Couvillion, RaMell Ross, DeeAnn Wagner, Preston Gannaway, John T. Biggers, Barbara Ciurej, Lindsay Lockman

Cover: “Sunshine on Peaches,” a painting by Ben Schonzeit