Heavy Humidity and a Haunting Bayou in “Girls With Long Shadows”

A review of Tennessee Hill’s atmospheric debut novel, “Girls with Long Shadows.”

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“Dan in Green Gables” Like a Much-Needed Hug

A review of the young adult graphic novel “Dan in Green Gables” by Rey Terciero and Claudia Aguirre.

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A Postal Memoir That’s About So Much More Than Mail

A review of Stephen Starring Grant’s wild-ride of a memoir, “Mailman.”

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Propelling into the “Weird South” with Melanie Benson Taylor’s New Collection on Postplantation Literature

A review of Melanie Benson Taylor’s “The Weird South: Ecologies of Unknowing in Postplantation Literature.”

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Food, Ghosts, Trauma, Magic: Three Generations Entwined in “My Mother Cursed My Name”

Set in a small Texas town near the U.S.-Mexico border, this debut magical realism novel follows Olvido, Angustias, and Felicitas as they reunite for Olvido’s funeral.

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A Faustian Bargain That Echoes Through Time: Rickey Fayne’s Bold Southern Debut

A review of Rickey Fayne’s debut novel “The Devil Three”

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“Bingo Bango Boingo:” A Thoughtful Intermeshing of Form and Content

A review of Alan Michael Parker’s latest story collection.

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