“The principle we followed to help us make every redesign decision was this: we believe our writers are producing probing and provocative and soulful work, and we would like for as many good readers as possible to read it for themselves.” — “Editor’s Box”

Essays by Tim McLaurin and Katherine Clark. Fiction by Jean Ross Justice and Brad Watson. Alan Jacobs on the Outdoors, Photo Essay by Maude Schuyler Clay. 

Other contributors include Donna Tartt, William Styron, Roy Blount Jr., Janet Lembke, John T. Edge, Darcey Steinke, and others.