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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“Monsterland” Shows What Monsters Really Mean
“Monsterland” by Nicholas Jubber examines the social, cultural, and environmental history of monsters.
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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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“Lady Smith”: No Prince Charmings Here
A review of Jess Smith’s poetry collection, “Lady Smith.”
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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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New Play Pays Tribute to Marie Laveau
A review of Carolyn Nur Wistrand’s play, “She Danced with a Redfish.”
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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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