From the first lines of The Turtle House, debut historical fiction author Amanda Churchill signals how she plans to spin her masterful family saga from prewar Japan to late 20th Century Texas ranch country. Curtain, Texas March 1, 1999 Paper hates water. It hates wind. And fire. Paper falls apart. There is no home safe…
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From philosophy, to film, to hip-hop, this collection is ripe with references and reflections.
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A review of the film “Desperation Road,” based on the novel by Michael Farris Smith.
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A review of Kiley Reid’s new novel, “Come and Get It.”
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Rose McLarney’s poetry collection reckons with aging, memory’s unreliability and the female experience.
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Do you like to read short stories? Do you like to read stories about morally grey and semi-unsavory women? Do you like to read stories about feminism? Or perhaps read stories in support of anti-racist and anti-queerphobic views? If so, then Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, beautifully edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley, is just the ticket…
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A review of Trish O’Kane’s “Birding to Change the World,” an engaging and eye-opening memoir of one woman’s commitment to her community and the natural world.
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A review of Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s new historical fiction novel, “The American Daughters,” a vibrant and empowering story set in New Orleans from 1851 to the Civil War.
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Part love story, Army veteran Matthew Gallagher’s latest novel primarily explores the complexities of war.
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An early scene in Dizz Tate’s debut novel Brutes depicts a birthday party of teenage girls stuffing water balloons inside their shirts: Leila told us that one girl had stuffed two balloons down the front of her bikini-top, and soon all the girls were running around with large, wobbling breasts. Then they started body-slamming each other to…
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Southern Review of Books 