Reality TV and the Empire of Assumed Authority
ID’s viral Nickelodeon documentary and Matt Walsh’s new court show expose the ethical bankruptcy of nonfiction television.
From Air Force Medic to Maternity Trailblazer
Caitlyn Schollmeier is building a birthing industry empire and changing the retail landscape of Hendersonville.
Staff Notes: Forging Freedom brings grassroots energy to the outskirts of Middle Tennessee
The Bloomington Springs Community Center sits at a near dead-end about three miles from the Love’s just off I-40 in a far corner of Putnam C
Atomic Hartsville
A small Tennessee town's forgotten history as a nuclear leader
EXCLUSIVE: Metro Arts launches initiative to 'return land, money, and resources' to 'Indigenous, African, and Asian peoples'
Executive Director Daniel Singh has surrounded himself with a cadre of radical consultants and has pledged to re-envision Metro Arts as an anti-racist organization committed to decolonization
What G.K. Chesterton Saw in Nashville
G.K. Chesterton's commentary on Nashville and the broader South from his 1921 tour of the US still resonates
Bookville
Plenty Downtown Bookshop furthers Cookeville’s quiet transformation into one of the state’s most impressive cultural hubs.
Radical Objectivity
A review of Jeff Fynn-Paul’s 'Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World'
Chip's Harvest
What a sixty-three-year-old sitcom can teach us about the folly of "land acknowledgments"
Nashville’s Taylor Era
Rediscovering the suburban roots of the world’s biggest popstar may be the city’s only way to stave off its decline.
Retreating To The Holiest Place In The South
What I learned at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky
The Pamphleteer’s Guide to the Southern Festival of Books
With a new venue and expanded offerings, Nashville’s premiere literary event taps into our current reading Renaissance
Review: Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s Much Ado About Nothing
This year's festival is “All Mirth and Not Matter”
There Is No Culture War
How a status-obsessed critical class and creators entrenched in their dogma poison fruitful discourse
Mr. Hanks in Music City
Hollywood’s former everyman turns to the written word and reminds a Blue Oasis of the America they left behind.