To dominate is intimacy’s opposite in Rebecca Gayle Howell’s “Erase Genesis.”
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When Is It Okay to Leave Home?: Katherine Packert Burke’s “All Us Saints”
A review of Katherine Packert Burke’s new novel, “All Us Saints.”
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An Ecofeminist Genesis, Painted Over and Made New
“Monster of a Land”: Warmth and Honesty Across America
A review of Lauren Hough’s new memoir, “Monster of a Land.”
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A Manifesto for Collective Healing in Appalachia
Rayelle Davis’ Money in the Mountains: The Cultural Trauma of Appalachia makes a clear, compelling argument: “Generational trauma and poverty aren’t the problems in Appalachia. They are the symptoms of collective abuse.”
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Books to Celebrate in June 2026
Celebrate Pride by reading one of the queer Southern fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books published in the first half of the year.
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The Southern Summer Book Club: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Check out the first video interview in our 2026 Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides and Aimee Nezhukumatathil!
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The Overlooked World of Southern Gas Station Food
Roadside eateries function as unlikely archives of Southern community, migration, and cultural change in “Get It While It’s Hot.”
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Second Chances, Growth and Tenderness in “Hope House”
Joe Bond’s “Hope House” is a thoroughly human story told with grace, humor, and tenderness.
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Penalties and Perks of an Ecological Education in “Woodlands of the Mind”
“Woodlands of the Mind” explores fifteen hidden university forests and the fragile histories that allow them to endure.
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Resilient and Adaptable Women: In Conversation with Lauren Osborn
Weird is good. Everything is weird when observed through an unfamiliar lens.
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A Poet Longs for Home in “Entered Some Aliens”
A review of Siew Hii’s “Entered Some Aliens.”
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