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Risk, Rebellion, and Growth in “Good Women”

By: Don J Rath September 12, 2023September 10, 2023

ReviewsGood Women, Halle Hill, Hub City Press, Short Stories2 Comments

Halle Hill’s story collection, “Good Women,” features women on the precipice of change.

To Rock Bottom and Back: Gabrielle Zevin’s “The Hole We’re In” Soars

By: Esty Loveing-Downes September 11, 2023September 12, 2023

ReviewsFiction, Gabrielle Zevin, Grove Press, The Hole We're InLeave a Comment

“You spend your whole life trying to get out of holes.The hole you’re born into…The hole you dig…How in the world do you ever get out?”

Raylan’s Back

By: J.N. Plesh September 7, 2023September 1, 2023

ReviewsFX, Hulu, Justified: City Primeval, Review, Stage and Screen, Television1 Comment

A review of the FX limited series, “Justified: City Primeval.”

Surreal Chronicles of History in “The Light at the End of the World”

By: Tina Borah August 30, 2023August 13, 2023

ReviewsFiction, Novel, Review, Siddhartha Deb, Soho Press, The Light at the End of the WorldLeave a Comment

A review of Siddhartha Deb’s “The Light at the End of the World.”

Family Secrets and Footnotes in “Happiness Falls”

By: Jenny Maattala August 29, 2023August 29, 2023

ReviewsAngie Kim, Fiction, Happiness FallsLeave a Comment

A review of Angie Kim’s second novel, “Happiness Falls.”

LaToya Watkins Explores the Sweat, Love, and Lies of Texas in “Holler, Child: Stories”

By: Chaney Hill August 28, 2023August 28, 2023

ReviewsFiction, Holler Child, LaToya Watkins, Short Stories, Tiny Reparations2 Comments

A masterful and deeply heartful look into the lives of a diverse set of emotionally complicated characters in this short story collection set in Texas.

“Bet” on Red Clay Suzie, a Novel Rooted in Truth

By: Valerie Nieman August 25, 2023August 24, 2023

ReviewsFiction, Jeffrey Dale Lofton, Novel, Red Clay Suzie, ReviewLeave a Comment

In this debut, Lofton’s irresistible protagonist is both endearingly naive and surprisingly sophisticated.

A Protest Artist, a Klansman, and a Reckoning with Race

By: Toby LeBlanc August 18, 2023October 2, 2023

ReviewsDavid Joy, Fiction, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Novel, Those We Thought We KnewLeave a Comment

A review of “Those We Thought We Knew” by David Joy.

Racism and Deadly Reparations in Stephen Kearse’s “Liquid Snakes”

By: Jennette Holzworth August 16, 2023June 11, 2024

ReviewsFiction, Liquid Snakes, Soft Skull, Stephen KearseLeave a Comment

“Reparations was not murder, Kenny told his dying friend. And Kenny was crazed, not crazy. Aggrieved, not grieving. There was a compelling argument that he was fucking stupid, but what he felt was fucking determined. ‘Important distinctions,’ Kenny said.”