A new column where Adam Morgan answers any questions you might have about books, writing, or editing — including reading recommendations.
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Adam Morgan is a culture journalist and critic who lives near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is the author of 'A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature' (December 9, 2025 from Simon & Schuster), and his writing has appeared in Esquire, WIRED, Scientific American, Inverse, The Paris Review, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He is also the founding editor of Alderbrink, the Chicago Review of Books, the Southern Review of Books, and the Chicago Literary Archive.
The Best Southern Books of May 2020
From Virginia poetry to Texas fiction, here are the best new Southern books of May 2020.
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The Best Southern Books of April 2020
Including four poetry collections, six novels, and two works of nonfiction.
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4 Ways to Support AWP Presses From Home
How to mitigate the financial impact of AWP 2020’s low turnout.
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The Artist Who Brought Anne Brontë’s Feminist Classic Back to Life
How Valentina Catto illustrated ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’ for the Folio Society.
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The Best Southern Books of March
Here are the best new novels, poetry collections, and other Southern books of March 2020.
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The Hopes and Fears of Southern Presses
We asked independent and university presses about publishing in the South. Here’s what they said.
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7 Southern Poets on Place
Jericho Brown, Ada Limón, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Jon Pineda, Adam Clay, Faylita Hicks, and Jaswinder Bolina.
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“A Good Neighborhood” Was Inspired by Therese Anne Fowler’s Anxiety
And also the tree in her backyard. Here’s the North Carolina novelist on writing across differences and gentrification.
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