An interview with Ashley Winstead about her new book, “Midnight is the Darkest Hour.”
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Cozy Appalachian Romance in “Witch of Wild Things”
A review of “Witch of Wild Things” by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland.
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Poet Rodney Jones Goes Home Again in “Alabama: Poems”
“The shame of provenance is not genetic. It is installed like electricity.”
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Grateful for Grit Lit
This season, I’m particularly grateful for grit lit, which I dared to revisit this summer after a years-long hiatus.
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“The Wind Will” Sweep Up Readers
Michelle Theall’s novel explores shortcomings and challenges stereotypes of the U.S. foster care system in this page-turning novel.
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The Best Southern Books of October 2023
New Southern releases in October 2023.
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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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