Southern Cultures: Arts & Letters

Volume 32, Number 2 – Summer 2026
In the Arts & Letters issue, we dive into conversation with the celebrated authors of two bestselling epistolary novelsThe Correspondent, with Virginia Evans, and Kin, with Tayari Jones. We visit Joseph Mitchells personal Eden and take a tour through Eudora Weltys personal archive, her home. We get a new read on queer lives through Carson McCullerss fan mail and Pauli Murrays personal photographs. We delight in the drawings in Allan Gurganuss sketchbook and Daniel Wallaces diary. And we revel in imagined audiences via Yuri Herreras long collaboration with his translator and in Kevin Youngs saltwater letters.