A new entry into the “queer weird-girl lit-fic” canon.
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“The Moonlight Healers” is an Empathetic, Meditative Decade-Spanning Debut
A review of Elizabeth Becker’s new novel, “The Moonlight Healers.”
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The Best Southern Books of March 2025
A roundup of some of the best Southern books of March 2025.
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New Ecopoetry Pleads for Our Broken yet Enduring Planet
A review of “Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology,” edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura Gray-Street.
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If You Don’t Slow Down, You’ll Miss It: A Closer Look at Life in “No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity”
A review of A. Kendra Greene’s essay collection “No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity.”
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“Fragments” Is Filled with Want, Traverses through Heartbreak
Tsang has wonderful use of language and metaphor, melding together honest trains of thought and poetic emotion reminiscent of Ocean Vuong.
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“Tar Hollow Trans” Is Beautifully Goth and Full of Appalachian Queerness
Stacy Jane Grover’s “Tar Hollow Trans” is an essay collection about spending one’s life on the margins.
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8 Books Toward Autonomy and Freedom
SRB editor Caroline Fairey Meese collects a list of books that grapple with freedom for people who live within a multiplicity of marginalizations.
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Fluidity in History: Tara Roberts’ “Written in the Waters”
Reading Written in the Waters by Tara Roberts was a profound emotional journey into the heaviness of the past and how history moves fluidly into the beauty and problems of the present.
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Seasons of Grief in “The Tears of Things”
A review of Catherine Hamrick’s poetry collection “The Tears of Things.”
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