“To the Moon and Back”: An Expansive Coming-of-Age Novel

Eliana Ramage has a knack for crafting complex characters and capturing the human experience.

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“Witty, Nuanced, and Overall Entertaining”: A Conversation with Wes Browne

If you wanna take a hell-ride into central Kentucky, read Wes Browne’s newest novel, “They All Fall the Same.”

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“The Fabled Earth” Fuses Fantasy and Southern History

Alternating between 1932 and 1959, “The Fabled Earth” follows three women whose lives overlap in the summer of 1959 on Cumberland Island, Georgia.

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“Dan in Green Gables” Like a Much-Needed Hug

A review of the young adult graphic novel “Dan in Green Gables” by Rey Terciero and Claudia Aguirre.

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Civil Rights and Hurricane Katrina Histories Converge in “Behind the Waterline”

In this interview, Kionna Walker LeMalle shares the experience and magic behind her debut novel.

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Atlanta is Haven for Queer Black Culture and “Baptism by Fire” in “Fantasies of Future Things”

The codes of masculinity, gay or straight, play an important role in “Fantasies,” which draws upon moments of historical change to reveal the precarious position of the Black gay male at the turn of the century.

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“Swamp”: A Historical Novel Full of Symbolism, Metaphor

The persona of Benito Juárez, revolutionary and first president of Mexico, transports readers to pre-Civil War New Orleans in this tale of bear fights, murders, infatuation, and yellow fever.

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“The Stone Catchers” Foregrounds America’s Unique Gun Problem 

A review of Laura Leigh Morris’s novel, “The Stone Catchers.”

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