midwest

This spring, I was new to the Midwest—and the cataclysm of a biblical flood was not on my agenda.

Edward Curtis traces two successive generations of Syrian Muslims across small towns and cities in the Dakotas, Iowa, and Indiana. 

Phil Christman explores the idea of the Midwest.

There are two conditions Meghan O'Gieblyn can't escape: Christianity and Midwesternness.

Simple, measured, and settled, the poems in Ted Kooser's new collection were composed by an artist with nothing further to prove.

The New York Times has never been exactly hesitant to publish articles that look cluelessly down on the cultural life of U.S. cities with fewer than 8 million residents. So I'm not sure I'd blame nepotism alone for the A. G. Sulzberger clunker the paper published this week.

In a Century article
published this week, Benjamin Dueholm explains why politicians of
Michele Bachmann's ilk do well in the swing states of the upper Midwest.
He starts with the fact that Bachmann and Garrison Keillor are from the
same small Minnesota town.

Michele Bachmann's frontrunner moment may be past. But she has shown how the Republicans can win in the restless small towns of the swing-state Midwest.