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  • Reading: “The Long Loneliness,” Parts Two and Three

    Reading: “The Long Loneliness,” Parts Two and Three

    [continued from an earlier post, “Reading: The Long Loneliness, Part One”] The second part of The Long Loneliness, titled “Natural Happiness,” seemed a contradiction in…

  • Southern Movie 1: “Straw Dogs” (2011)

    The Southern Movies series explores images of the South in modern films as well as how those images affect American perspectives on the region. I…

  • Alabama not so bike friendly

    In a May 3 article run by the Montgomery Advertiser, the local newspaper where I live, the headline read: “Alabama among least bike-friendly.” The article explains:…

  • Reading: “The Long Loneliness,” Part One

    Being a relatively new convert to Catholicism, I had never heard of Dorothy Day until she was on the cover of Commonweal not too long ago.…