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Summer Reading

By editorial | June 4, 2025

Here is what we’re reading this summer.

Learn More About Foster Care and Homelessness

The fact is that homelessness will not end if we continue to inflict the trauma that led to their foster care placement to begin with.

A Right to Housing: Maria Foscarinis on the Fight to End Homelessness

Foscarinis reflects on her role in shaping federal homelessness policy and the urgent need to reframe how America thinks about housing

Q&A with Martesha Johnson Moore

The head of Nashville’s Public Defender’s Office, Martesha Johnson Moore, discusses development and expansion.

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New Pee-Wee Herman documentary is a unique portrait of an artist and an iconic character

‘Companion’ is scary-fun company to keep on MAX

What to Know About Choose How You Move on the Ballot

By editorial | October 9, 2024

On Nov. 5, Nashville voters will have the chance to vote on the “Choose How You Move” Transportation Improvement Program.

Tankas

By Norma B. | October 2, 2024

Cats are finicky
They have a mind of their own
They give affection
In cuddles snuggles and purrs
Without them life would be dull

The Losing of a Brother

By William B. | October 2, 2024

I got to know him in the last ten years real well.

Civil War upsets expectations to deliver a poetic, personal meditation on war and trauma

By Joe Nolan | October 2, 2024

And a film that might have only supported the elite establishment, parroting the predictable talking points of neoliberal imperialism, instead does something smarter and more poetic.

Reading this posthumous memoir is a lot like experiencing Strobel in person. His stories welcome you into his life. He’s always a little bit mischievous in his delivery. He is calm about his faults and mistakes in a way that is reassuring