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“Nowhere” Delivers Grisly, Supernatural, Appalachian Horror
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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“Wayward” Women Struggle for Bodily Autonomy in “Women of a Promiscuous Nature”
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… Read more
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