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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“Promise” is a potent tale in which good transcends evil, and love and grace conquer fear and violence.
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“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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“As If She Had A Say” uses magical realism and fantastical elements to critique patriarchy in this genre-bending collection.
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A review of Stephanie Willing’s new young adult novel, “West of the Sea.”
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A review of Paulette Jiles’ “Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance.”
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An interview with Ron Rash about his novel, “The Caretaker.”
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This review reflects on how Robert Maynor’s debut fumbles first-person point-of-view, but scores points for character development elsewhere.
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A review of “Now is Not the Time to Panic” by Kevin Wilson.
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“You spend your whole life trying to get out of holes.The hole you’re born into…The hole you dig…How in the world do you ever get out?”
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Southern Review of Books 