Lee Cole’s sophomore novel, “Fulfillment,” drops readers directly into the political, class, and economic divides wrenching America apart, unspooled through a story about two half-brothers from a family with deep roots in Kentucky.
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The Impractical, the Unlikely, the Impossible: A Conversation with Angela Ball
Through leaps and revelations, the speaker of Angela Ball’s poems in her new collection, “Steeplechase,” shows how the boundaries between places don’t really separate them but shape how they come into relation with one another.
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The Southern Summer Book Club: July
Part two of The Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides focusing on “The Marriage Bed” by Tommy Hays.
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An Ecofeminist Genesis, Painted Over and Made New
To dominate is intimacy’s opposite in Rebecca Gayle Howell’s “Erase Genesis.”
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“Monster of a Land”: Warmth and Honesty Across America
A review of Lauren Hough’s new memoir, “Monster of a Land.”
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A Manifesto for Collective Healing in Appalachia
Rayelle Davis’ Money in the Mountains: The Cultural Trauma of Appalachia makes a clear, compelling argument: “Generational trauma and poverty aren’t the problems in Appalachia. They are the symptoms of collective abuse.”
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Books to Celebrate in June 2026
Celebrate Pride by reading one of the queer Southern fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books published in the first half of the year.
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The Southern Summer Book Club: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Check out the first video interview in our 2026 Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides and Aimee Nezhukumatathil!
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The Overlooked World of Southern Gas Station Food
Roadside eateries function as unlikely archives of Southern community, migration, and cultural change in “Get It While It’s Hot.”
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Second Chances, Growth and Tenderness in “Hope House”
Joe Bond’s “Hope House” is a thoroughly human story told with grace, humor, and tenderness.
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