Author: Ken Ford-Powell

Ken Ford-Powell

November-December 2021
Features From Current Issue

Essays

The Thing Not Named

By Andrew Holleran: Willa Cather aspired to the status of Artist while living with, and getting help from, a very intelligent woman (Edith Lewis) who had given up the arts to earn a living by selling soap.

Features

Chicago as the Paradigmatic City

NO ISSUE on “the Heartland” would be complete without an article on Chicago, undoubtedly the beating heart—or is it the brain?—of this vast expanse. With this realization, I immediately thought of John D’Emilio as the logical person to contact for a targeted tutorial on Chicago’s LGBT history and culture. A longtime contributor to this magazineMore

Essays

Grant Wood Left Tipoffs All Over

By Ignacio Darnaude: In 1927, Arnold Pyle (1909–1973), one of Wood’s former students, became his assistant. Pyle was eighteen and Wood, 36. Good-looking, tall, athletic, with thick black hair, the heterosexual Pyle epitomized the type of man Wood continued to fall for, over and over, throughout his life.

Essays

When C.A. Met Alfred, Part 1*

Tripp made a point of letting Kinsey know that he was homosexual and was writing a book on the subject (which became The Homosexual Matrix).
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