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By Matthew Hand They knew the rules in their bones. Not memorized—absorbed, like mildew in baseboards. There was no guidebook, no whispered cheat code passed down by older boys. Just soft rules: inherited, rehearsed, quietly enforced. The sidewalks of Terrytow...

By Matthew Hand They knew the rules in their bones. Not memorized—absorbed, like mildew in base boards. There was no guidebook, no whispered cheat code passed down by older boys. Just soft rules: inherited, rehearsed, quietly enforced. The sidew...

Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (formerly Kansas Quarterly) Volume 55, Number 1 Spring/April 2024 “Taking Care of Business”: Elvis as a Working Class Hero. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3           by ...

by Anton DiSclafani Laura Stanley received the news via text mes- sage. BREEZEWAY BAPTIST WOULD LIKE TO INFORM YOU— And then a link, which Laura, holding John on her hip, had tapped with her thumb. We’re sorry to inform you that your child, John Furlow Stanley...

Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South. Edited by Sharbreon Plummer. (Jackson, Mis-sissippi: University Press of Missis-sippi, 2025. Pp. 168, 95 black & white and color illustrations. $40, hardcover) Sharbreon Plummer introduce...

Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South (traveling art exhibition) Mississippi Museum of Art Jackson, Mississippi by Marcus Charles Tribbett Originally staged at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Tennessee, from mid-No- vember o...

The University of Arkansas Virtual Museum Online Resource http://sdc.cast.uark.edu by Marcus Charles Tribbett The University of Arkansas Virtual Museum is an online project jointly created and main- tained by the Center for Advanced Spatial Tech- n...

Still Motion: Poems and Photo-graphs. By Jianqing Zheng & Leo Touchet. Photo Circle Press, 2025. Pp. 62, $15, paperback) John Berger opens Ways of Seeing by asserting that “Seeing comes before words.” Explaining his claim, he writes, “The child looks and...

by Kevin Novalina The daddy spits on the whetstone and grinds the blade up its surface. He flips the Buck knife over and scrapes it back down, the steel over silicon carbide rasping like slow-peeled duct tape. Sitting at the kitchen table, he th...

Historic Arkansas Newspapers available for free as part of Chronicling America The Library of Congress’s Historic American Newspapers collection (online) by Katie Adkins and Darren Bell, Arkansas State Archives Since 1905, the Arka...

Lottie Deno: A Novel of the Civil War & the American Southwest. By Frank Thurmond. (Marion, MI: Parkhurst Brothers Publishers, 2024. Pp. 240, $17.95, paperback) “I was later accused of ‘running a disorderly house,’ but that is of course nonsense, the kind of ...

by Jacob Reecher 4. Round midnight quiet enough for to hear my watch tick. Three hundred make five mi- nutes. Twelve times over make an hour. The moonlight tune my eyes, the room go blue like nighttime the movies. Five hooks the door, seven e...

by Floyd Collins Richard Wooten: 1952-2024 Red mercury inches up a thermometer we nailed Hard to peeling birch bark, and it’s noon before It dawns on us that the glass bleb threatens to pop Under the sun’s relentless gaze in Red Banks, Mississippi. Last night...

by Virginia Archer 1985. My mother’s fake tits nearly killed me on the way in. I came out blue as a fish and breathless. Not enough room for the milk I would need and all that plastic beauty in one body. When the doctors decided I’d make it, my father smoked ...

by Tyrone Jaeger Perhaps the Dam Will Hold I’m drying out like a late Raymond Carver story but these Arkansas rains . . . Leaks trickle in the kitchen and living room. Drips pop in pails and tupperware. Water above, water below. My APRN assures me the pain an...

by Jeffrey Utzinger She washes her face, dabs it dry with a towel as I watch over her shoulder, attempting to shave, both of us watching the image of how each ap- pears to themselves, the opposite of how we ap- pear to the world, and though she’s beauti...

by Frank Thurmond I finally booked passage for myself and Mary on a shiny new paddle wheel, triple-deck stern- wheeler christened the New Orleans (after Robert Fulton’s first commercial steamboat fifty years earlier). I traveled to Pittsburgh with Mary, where ...

by Claude Wilkinson Nightfall When as much as a gibbous moon slants shadows of sweet gum and poplar limbs across the tool shed out back in ways reminiscent of Burton Callicott paintings, between dusk and dawn, while I’m watching for raccoon action, especially...

Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey. By Robert “Mack” McCormick, edited by John W. Troutman. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2023. Pp. xxx + 232, editor’s preface, introduction, afterword, notes, acknowledgments, index, photograp...