Arts & Culture

The novelist’s Great Smoky Mountains immersion laid the groundwork for his epic Pulitzer-winning tree novel. It also sparked a love affair between man and place that is upending Powers’s life and work

In her lovely new book, the best-selling author of Under the Tuscan Sun welcomes readers into both her Southern and Italian estates

Beverly Lowry’s Deer Creek Drive revisits a midcentury murder in the Delta

Twenty-five years later, a North Carolina artist is still filling machines around the world

See the new musical about the American icon at Washington, D.C.’s Arena Stage

Yes, it’s a thing. And you’ll probably know when it’s coming at you

A young Kentucky designer puts a fresh twist on basketry

Baking secrets, okra wars, and meat-and-threes

How the late Charleston artist Alice Ravenel Huger Smith’s works helped set the scene in the new film

The interior designer made his buoyant mark in spaces across the South, from the Greenbrier resort to presidential homes

After devastating waters wrecked novelist Silas House’s Eastern Kentucky homeland last week, he worked alongside the helpers—those who refuse to let the voices of Appalachia go under.

Jerry Fisk has made just about every type of knife imaginable. Now, along with passing down the skills that have made him a living legend, he’s determined to uncover the true story behind the South’s most famous blade

How the Texas-born actor shaped a career that reached a crescendo this year with one of the world’s highest international film honors

Shorty Koger honors a lost art at her Oklahoma City hattery

Knocking the rust off salvaged cast-iron

How one of most prolific American painters got his start in Charlottesville, Virginia

Remembering a “Southern” original

The Charleston designer’s new women’s wear line embraces effortless cool

A pediatric neurosurgeon might have been a tad out of his element treating bugbites and wrapping sprained ankles. Turns out, summer camp duty was just the salve he needed