Belief

Review: “My Cousin Vinny” (1992)

Republished from “Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore,” which focuses on beliefs, myths, and narratives in Southern culture since 1970

Reading Zachary J. Lechner’s “The South of the Mind”

Republished from Groundwork, the editor’s blog

Published in 2018, Zachary J. Lechner’s The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980 carries the reader…

Purple Birds

Republished from Nobody’s Home, an essay by Margaret Donovan Bauer

In The News, Spring 2022

In The News is published quarterly and provides a sampling of stories, articles, or reviews about beliefs, myths, or narratives in the…

In the News, Winter 2022

Published quarterly, providing a sampling of stories, articles, or reviews…

Salt, Nails, and Prayer

Republished from “Nobody’s Home,” an essay by W. Charlene LeBrun

Sports are a major component of Southern culture, and each of them has its own beliefs, myths, and narratives. In the minds of athletes, coaches, and…

A Road Trip, Southbound

An editor’s road trip through southern Alabama and northern Florida

If you leave Montgomery, Alabama heading south on US Highway 331, you’ll pass through the small community of Highland Home then, before you reach…

The submission guidelines have changed.

The August 15 deadline for the last reading period for the initial publication passed, and the guidelines to submit have changed.

People are gon’ do what they’re gon’ do.

Beliefs, myths, narratives, and COVID-19 in the South

Though I certainly don’t relish this opportunity to comment on it, creating and building a project about beliefs, myths, and narratives in the…