Southern Cultures: Arts & Letters : Volume 32, Number 2 - Summer 2026

In the Arts & Letters issue, we dive into conversation with the celebrated authors of two bestselling epistolary novels—The Correspondent, with Virginia Evans, and Kin, with Tayari Jones. We visit Joseph Mitchell’s personal Eden and take a tour through Eudora Welty’s personal archive, her home. We get a new read on queer lives through Carson McCullers’s fan mail and Pauli Murray’s personal photographs. We delight in the drawings in Allan Gurganus’s sketchbook and Daniel Wallace’s diary. And we revel in imagined audiences via Yuri Herrera’s long collaboration with his translator and in Kevin Young’s “saltwater letters.”