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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A review of Katriona Chapman’s newest graphic novel, “The Pass.”
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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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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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Part two of The Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides focusing on “The Marriage Bed” by Tommy Hays.
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To dominate is intimacy’s opposite in Rebecca Gayle Howell’s “Erase Genesis.”
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A review of Lauren Hough’s new memoir, “Monster of a Land.”
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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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Check out the first video interview in our 2026 Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides and Aimee Nezhukumatathil!
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Roadside eateries function as unlikely archives of Southern community, migration, and cultural change in “Get It While It’s Hot.”
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Joe Bond’s “Hope House” is a thoroughly human story told with grace, humor, and tenderness.
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