A review of “Witch of Wild Things” by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland.
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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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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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Southern Review of Books 