Petty Yet Liberating Incivilities in “Be Gay, Do Crime”

Edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley, the stories in “Be Gay, Do Crime” are often chaotic and funny, but also filled with yearning and pain.

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Neighbors Hold Unusual Burials in “The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush”

Regardless of whether one might know Gilmore’s rural world intimately or not, “The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush” is an easy book to feel a kinship with because of its warmth — full of love, hope, kindness, and community.

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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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Luis Martín-Santos’s “Time of Silence”: A Manic Narration of Cultural Stagnation

A review of Luis Martín-Santos’ “Time of Silence.”

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Propelling into the “Weird South” with Melanie Benson Taylor’s New Collection on Postplantation Literature

A review of Melanie Benson Taylor’s “The Weird South: Ecologies of Unknowing in Postplantation Literature.”

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Liminal Spaces of the Sacred and Profane: Alina Stefanescu’s “My Heresies”

Alina Stefanescu’s new collection of poetry, “My Heresies,” is an entirely new feminist text in its own right. Observant, angry, and questioning, Stefanescu’s poems guide readers through the liminal spaces where the sacred and the profane collide.

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The Art of Fulfilling Insatiable Appetites: Lucy Rose’s “The Lamb”

Originally written as a series of interconnected flash fiction pieces, Lucy Rose’s “The Lamb” is a folk horror novel at its sinister heart.

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