Navajo Culture Foregrounded in Top-Tier Crime Drama “Dark Winds”

A review of AMC’s “Dark Winds,” based on Tony and Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee novels.

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Griot & Grey Owl Aims to Inspire, Connect, and Transform

An interview with the folks behind the Griot & Grey Owl Black Southern Writers Conference.

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Capturing “what it is like to live beside, beneath, above, near, and among others”: Lydia Davis’ “Our Strangers”

A review of Lydia Davis’ new collection, “Our Strangers.”

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A Young Man and Three Snakes Go AWOL in St. Augustine

A review of Ginger Pinholster’s second novel, “Snakes of St. Augustine.”

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Lawrence Wright on “Mr. Texas” and What Makes Texas Special

Lawrence Wright is sitting in his home in Austin. In the background, I can see the warmly toned wall and the beginnings of an angled roof reaching toward a peak off-screen. The partial desk behind him is dark wood and has cloth-bound books on the shelves and notes on the desk. Behind him light trickles…

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Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ Fresh Debut “Promise” Offers a Fresh Take on a Familiar Conflict

“Promise” is a potent tale in which good transcends evil, and love and grace conquer fear and violence. 

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Ayana Mathis Examines Generational Struggle in “The Unsettled”

“Could be that ‘now’ is already curled up inside ‘then,’ like a family’s generations already inside a woman’s body. What a terror.”

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Story Collection Blends the Venn Diagram Between “Weird” and “Feminist”

“As If She Had A Say” uses magical realism and fantastical elements to critique patriarchy in this genre-bending collection.

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Finding Oneself in Stephanie Willing’s “West of the Sea”

A review of Stephanie Willing’s new young adult novel, “West of the Sea.”

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