Questioning Who’s Allowed to Dream in “Fulfillment”

Lee Cole’s sophomore novel, “Fulfillment,” drops readers directly into the political, class, and economic divides wrenching America apart, unspooled through a story about two half-brothers from a family with deep roots in Kentucky.

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The Impractical, the Unlikely, the Impossible: A Conversation with Angela Ball

Through leaps and revelations, the speaker of Angela Ball’s poems in her new collection, “Steeplechase,” shows how the boundaries between places don’t really separate them but shape how they come into relation with one another.

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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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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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