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The Race to the Bottom: A Review of Ross Benes’s ‘1999’

It never fails—whenever Benes defends low culture, he does so in the exact terms that he ought to be using to criticize it

Pigs and Hollies and Swamps, Oh My!: Corrymeela Ranch, Limestone County, Texas

Corrymeela is a dreamscape, a landscape that I marvel at every time I go out there. If conservation consists of loving something—a tract of land, a garden, a wood—then my…

Cowboy Poetry

An actual cowboy's life was a far cry from a John Wayne Western.