Author Sara Johnson Allen shines a spotlight on the racial, political and social power dynamics along the U.S.-Mexico Border, and throughout the U.S., in this story of motherhood and strained familial love impacted by systems imposed upon them.
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Ultimately, Emily Habeck’s “Shark Heart” is a novel about acceptance, grief, and letting go. It is structurally and lyrically daring, so much so that its pages quickly envelop readers in its emotional challenges and magic.
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A review of Karin Cecile Davidson’s story collection, “The Geography of First Kisses.”
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Witches, wolves, and ghosts are at play in the latest from the author of “The Transcriptionist.”
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A review of “Southern Storytellers,” a documentary series on contemporary Southern artists on PBS.
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Author Ana Menéndez creates the history of Apartment 2B, showing the kind of communities we might build if we included those who came before us.
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A review of Len Lawson’s collection of poetry, “Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane.”
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A review of “Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness” by Robert Lunday.
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Joel Lafayette Fletcher III recounts his adventures finding himself as a gay man in a time when it could get him killed in this memoir.
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A review of “Meet Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage” by Helen Ellis.
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