Megan Craig

Dec 2, 2024 | theamericanscholar.org | Samantha Hill |Jonathan A. Liebson |Megan Craig |Jonathan Weiner

Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil

Sep 5, 2023 | theamericanscholar.org | Megan Craig

Edison, Kern County, California. Young girl looks up from her work. She picks and sacks potatoes on large-scale ranch, April 11, 1940, gelatin silver print In November 1938, Dorothea Lange snapped a black-and-white photograph at a gas station in Kern County, California. A couple of buildings and trees are visible in the background—vague signs of life.

Sep 5, 2023 | theamericanscholar.org | Ilan Stavans |Megan Craig |Christian Wiman |Caroline McCoy

Articles The photographic language of Dorothea Lange conveyed order and beauty in a dusty, impoverished America by Megan Craig Can poetry truly supply the language to express the ineffable sensations of suffering and love? by Christian Wiman What we know of Flannery O’Connor’s childhood—and how her views on race took shape—is incomplete if her caretaker Emma Jackson remains in obscurity by Caroline McCoy Reckoning with 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and most recently the Covid-19...