Category Archive: dog days classics

Settin’ the Woods on Fire in the Countercultural South

I recently contributed an essay to a volume that’s forthcoming from UNC Press called The Bohemian South.  You can […]

No, American Citizenship Is Not Necessarily Inclusive

The rise of Donald Trump has induced a collective shudder through much of America.  For many, the GOP […]

Dog Days Classics: Digging Joan Didion in the Age of Feelings

In her review of 2015’s The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty’s biography of famed writer Joan Didion, Meghan […]

Dog Days Classics: Rethinking Wowee Zowee

Back in 1997, Stephen Malkmus was asked in an interview when it was that Pavement sold out or […]

Dog Days Classics: Tolkien and Martin in Love and War

By the time I gave up on finishing The Lord of the Rings, I like to think that […]

What Does Woodward’s Origins of the New South Have to Say to the Twenty-First Century Reader?

Less than a decade after C. Vann Woodward’s epic tome, Origins of the New South (1951), had been published, […]

Dog Days Classics: John Brooke on Joseph Smith, Alchemy, & the Longue Durée

I entered my first semester of graduate school with supreme overconfidence. It was August 2001, three weeks before […]

Dog Days Classics: Why I Love Michael Holt, His Bowties, & the Whig Party

As an undergraduate student in Professor Michael Holt’s “Coming of the Civil War” class at the University of […]