“Man loves to fight, must fight, must do, must conquer a day or lie shiftless, moaning and feckless. Many have felt this…” — Barry Hannah in “Old Terror, New Hearts”

Barry Hannah reports on “Inside Louisiana’s Leper Colony.” Short stories by Debra Leigh Scott and Richard Rubin. Julia Reed explains Southern fashion. Photography by Tom Roster in Canton, Mississippi. Marc Smirnoff writes about That Bookstore in Blytheville. Interview with Joel Schumacher, the director of A Time to Kill. Other contributors include Charles Taylor, Fred Hobson, Thomas Easterling, and Robert Brinkerhoff.