“Nola Face”: A Bold and ‘Buggy’ Debut

The New Orleans literary landscape is rich, but Brooke Champagne’s memoir fills a gap in the Big Easy canon.

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Will the Feminist Revolt Come from the South?: Kiera V. Williams’ “Why Any Woman”

In “Why Any Woman: Feminism and Popular Culture in the Late Twentieth-Century South,” Keira V. Williams explores popular culture by and about southern women as a site of feminist consciousness-raising.

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The Origins of Appalachian Cuisine Explored in “Appalachia on the Table”

Author Erica Abrams Locklear explores a cultural history of Appalachian foodways.

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