“Monsterland” by Nicholas Jubber examines the social, cultural, and environmental history of monsters.
Read More
All articles filed in Reviews
A Postal Memoir That’s About So Much More Than Mail
A review of Stephen Starring Grant’s wild-ride of a memoir, “Mailman.”
Read More
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.”
Read More
“Lady Smith”: No Prince Charmings Here
A review of Jess Smith’s poetry collection, “Lady Smith.”
Read More
Family at the Most Basic Level in “Run for the Hills”
Kevin Wilson’s latest novel, “Run for the Hills,” is a story full of hope and humor.
Read More
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.
Read More
A Faustian Bargain That Echoes Through Time: Rickey Fayne’s Bold Southern Debut
A review of Rickey Fayne’s debut novel “The Devil Three”
Read More
“Bingo Bango Boingo:” A Thoughtful Intermeshing of Form and Content
A review of Alan Michael Parker’s latest story collection.
Read More
Liminal Spaces of the Sacred and Profane: Alina Stefanescu’s “My Heresies”
Alina Stefanescu’s new collection of poetry, “My Heresies,” is an entirely new feminist text in its own right. Observant, angry, and questioning, Stefanescu’s poems guide readers through the liminal spaces where the sacred and the profane collide.
Read More
“Sinners:” A Feast for the Eyes and Ears, A Feat of Storytelling
A review of the film “Sinners,” written and directed by Ryan Coogler.
Read More
Southern Review of Books 