Salvation South

She was obsessed with repairing the Alabama home where she grew up. But some things just can’t be fixed.

Hoppin’ John, they call him. Now, five decades deep into his career as a historian of Southern food, John Martin Taylor delivers a career-capping memoir that teaches us to make the most of what we’ve got. On our tables and in our souls.

But really, it’s an Apple Nut Torte

To honor our Italian ancestors and friends, let’s call it gamberetti con polenta.

Regret, a Chattanooga poet argues, is like a junkyard.

How to fix yourself if you hold on too tightly to what used to be.

College towns move us from the world of youth to the world of adulthood. For folks who went to college in Athens, Georgia, William Orten Carlton was the man who welcomed us to the new world.

A film about the lauded Southern novelist — and Salvation South contributor — Charles McNair.

Religious affiliation is falling, even in the God-haunted South. But chaplaincy is booming in hospitals, schools, prisons and other institutions. And it’s teaching us how to reach across barriers of faith.

In Arkansas’ Salem Cemetery, everyone you meet is a friend, a neighbor, or maybe even one of your people.

Five Southern poems that smell like honeysuckle, mountain laurel, moss and tomatoes.

Zoh Amba is a rarity — a white woman saxophonist, from Appalachia, no less — playing “free jazz” in New York and around the world. But to pigeonhole her into a “hillbilly exotica” tale would be to devalue the hard work of a woman whose music fearlessly chases the divine.