A Master Class in Suspense
Kimberly Belle's latest thriller 'My Darling Husband' is full of nail-biting tension.
A Wild Ride of Horse Diving & Roaming Spirits
A review of 'When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky' by Margaret Verble.
The Beautiful and Damned: A Review of ‘Capote’s Women’ by Laurence Leamer
Spend time paging through the lives of Truman Capote's extraordinary women amid the subplot of his tragic life.
Place and Personhood: A Review of Eric Nguyen’s ‘Things We Lost to the Water’
In his highly anticipated debut novel, Nguyen masterfully crafts a 27-year-long struggle for a family of three Vietnamese refugees attempting to reconcile their new home with their personal identities.
A Cosmic Connection
A review of Ann McCutchan's 'The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.'
It Can Howl: A Review of Michael Bible’s ‘The Ancient Hours’
Since dropping his gut-punch novella 'Sophia' in 2015, Michael Bible has emerged as heir apparent to syntactic virtuoso and Southern legend Barry Hannah.
The Bitter Taste of Trauma: A Review of Christopher Swann’s ‘Never Turn Back’
Swann does more than craft a mesmerizing murder mystery: he illustrates trauma with the priority being authenticity instead of severity.
‘Somewhere in the Dark’: A Slow Burn of a Mystery
R.J. Jacobs builds up to this Nashville-set mystery about a musician and her stalker.
Science vs. Religion: Review of Yaa Gyasi’s ‘Transcendent Kingdom’
Alabama's Yaa Gyasi's lastest novel is a thousand-piece puzzle, a masterpiece, a work of grit.
Lifelike Creatures: A Book About Love and Suffering
Rebecca Baum uses her intimate understanding of the rural South to paint an unapologetically ugly picture of life for the impoverished.