A review of Scott McClanahan’s newest book, “Fights!”
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A Mad King Awaits His Lady Love in the Absurdist “Ada”
A review of Mark Haber’s novel “Ava.”
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Loss Shapes the Characters in “Should the Waters Take Us”
Stephanie Soileau’s new novel, “Should the Waters Take Us,” is an all-encompassing epoch that spans generations, geography, and even climate.
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Katriona Chapman’s “The Pass” is a Sizzling Hot, Character-Driven Graphic Novel
A review of Katriona Chapman’s newest graphic novel, “The Pass.”
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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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An Ecofeminist Genesis, Painted Over and Made New
To dominate is intimacy’s opposite in Rebecca Gayle Howell’s “Erase Genesis.”
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“Monster of a Land”: Warmth and Honesty Across America
A review of Lauren Hough’s new memoir, “Monster of a Land.”
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A Manifesto for Collective Healing in Appalachia
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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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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Second Chances, Growth and Tenderness in “Hope House”
Joe Bond’s “Hope House” is a thoroughly human story told with grace, humor, and tenderness.
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