At the core of this collection is Wade’s complex relationship with his father, whose presence is at once both painful and familiar.
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The philosophical takes in Alison Gunn’s “Nowhere” combines small-town dynamics with all the best components of horror writing to create a genre-bending page turner.
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From the American Plan in 1918 to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2026 in, well, 2026, women’s bodies and sexuality seem to be the perennial target of men in positions of authority. In Donna Everhart’s historical novel Women of a Promiscuous Nature, ordinary women in 1940s North Carolina resist their unjust incarceration at the State Industrial…
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Betsy Sussler’s “Station of the Birds,” is a tight, thrilling novel set in the bayous, swamps, and drug dens of the Louisiana backcountry.
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An interview with poet D.S. Waldman on his recent collection, “Atria.”
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The best Southern books of March 2026.
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A nonverbal autistic trans man. A worm-worshipping cult. An unwanted pregnancy. Andrew Joseph White’s latest horror novel is as unsettling as its opening line promises.
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A review of Burnside Soleil’s debut poetry collection, “Berceuse Parish.”
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An interview with Robert Gwaltney, author of “Sing Down the Moon.”
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In The Best Little Motel in Texas, Lyla Lane brings together the most delightful tropes from cozy mystery and romantic comedy while adding a slight twist to each.
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A review of the Broadway play, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow.”
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