The first Black president of an Ivy League school shares her experience of loss, struggle and growing up in the segregated South in her memoir “Up Home: One Girl’s Journey.”
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Leaving Space for Hope: Elizabeth Hilborn’s “Restoring Eden”
An interview with Elizabeth Hilborn about her new memoir, “Restoring Eden.”
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Surreal Chronicles of History in “The Light at the End of the World”
A review of Siddhartha Deb’s “The Light at the End of the World.”
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Family Secrets and Footnotes in “Happiness Falls”
A review of Angie Kim’s second novel, “Happiness Falls.”
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LaToya Watkins Explores the Sweat, Love, and Lies of Texas in “Holler, Child: Stories”
A masterful and deeply heartful look into the lives of a diverse set of emotionally complicated characters in this short story collection set in Texas.
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“Bet” on Red Clay Suzie, a Novel Rooted in Truth
In this debut, Lofton’s irresistible protagonist is both endearingly naive and surprisingly sophisticated.
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Banned Books in the South
SRB editor Jennette Holzworth recommends banned books that have been significant in her life.
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Robert Maynor on Everyday Stories, Owls, and “The Big Game Is Every Night”
An interview with Robert Maynor on his debut novel, “The Big Game Is Every Night.”
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A Protest Artist, a Klansman, and a Reckoning with Race
A review of “Those We Thought We Knew” by David Joy.
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Racism and Deadly Reparations in Stephen Kearse’s “Liquid Snakes”
“Reparations was not murder, Kenny told his dying friend. And Kenny was crazed, not crazy. Aggrieved, not grieving. There was a compelling argument that he was fucking stupid, but what he felt was fucking determined. ‘Important distinctions,’ Kenny said.”
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