Cari Wade Gervin

Weil’s protagonists are really alone—so alone it hurts. Touches of a modern Southern Gothic pop up now and again, which is probably why Weil has been compared to Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy. But his novellas aren’t about violence, they’re ...

The Republican presidential primary is getting all the attention for the upcoming March 6 election, as early voting gets underway this week. But while not as high-profile, the three local school board races are swinging into high gear these last ...

There are a lot of pages in the Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corporation documents released late last Wednesday night. There are contracts and board meeting minutes and financials and stacks and stacks of spreadsheets. But when you look at the ...

Last year’s session of the state Legislature was a morass of bills urging schools to “Don’t Say Gay” and students to engage in “critical thinking.” Were these the most important issues facing the state? Eh, not so much. But they ...

Here's our list of bills in the Legislature that will either get the most attention (crazy) or demand close attention (important).

Yung Life plays fuzzy, dreamy synth pop, the kind that hints of M83 and New Order and Suicide, the kind that sounds like it was made in 1982 instead of 2012, the kind where shadowy vocals are muted behind swirls ...

Running the Rift is a much better novel than The Help, but it suffers from the same problematic issue—can an American white woman write authentically and realistically about the issues faced by blacks? Can someone who lives a life of ...

I wish I could say I liked more books than I did in 2011. I really do. There were so many books I was excited to read, and so few of those lived up to my expectations.

Kally Elliot is 35 and petite, trim, and athletic; she looks like the runner she is. She’s friendly, but she can be bluntly honest and is often sarcastic. She’s not a preacher who tells corny jokes; she’s not old-fashioned.

Over the past few years, pimento cheese has become omnipresent on menus of all the best restaurants in the South, and I’ve become obsessed with eating it. Not eating pimento cheese fritters or pimento mac and cheese, just the pure ...