Arts & Culture

How a Mississippi photographer plans to resurrect the famed Mississippi folk art site

Tiny Southern towns host travel-worthy festivals and support growing arts communities

Nothing frenzies and frazzles like going on vacation

The author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe found her voice thanks to one little Birmingham theater

Bladesmith Quintin Middleton’s chef’s knife pays tribute to his ancestral history

Back on tour, a Nashville author discovers that bookshops around the South are writing intriguing new chapters

Surviving Southern insects, embracing fashionable neckwear, and sharing swimming spots

In her latest picture book, Alice Faye Duncan teaches children the story of Opal Lee’s decades-long campaign to make Juneteenth a national holiday

Editors, contributors, and Southern booksellers share the new novels, fresh nonfiction, and even a couple of cookbooks at the top of their book stacks

After fifty years, his Bentonia Blues Festival is still going strong

Hillary Waters Fayle ties together embroidery and nature in her Richmond studio

Fancy digs for fowl from a North Carolina maker

Your hot-weather guide to icy drinks, breezy waterways, stargazing hideouts, the ultimate ice cream cone piled high with Southern scoops, and one idyllically refreshing mountain weekend

Fresh finds for lazy summer days on the shore

Her new novel traces an incomparable equine down the stretch of history

Even fifty-five years later, nobody holds a candle to Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke

In his timely new novel, the eighty-five-year-old literary titan shares more of himself than ever before

Garden & Gun hosted its second annual G&G Shoot-Out Golf Tournament at the historic Southern estate

Ideal finds for the gardener, griller, boater, and more

The rising star can swing from New Orleans jazz to Hollywood’s latest hit without skipping a beat