“Who Do You Think You Are?”
In The Trouble of Color, Martha S. Jones interrogates how her Kentucky ancestors negotiated the “color line” and what it has meant in her own life.
Book Reviews
A Parable of Young Womanhood
In her debut novel, Girls with Long Shadows, Tennessee Hill follows the identical Binderup triplets — Baby A, Baby B, and Baby C — as adulthood and community attitudes intrude on their deep bond.
In the Drink
The William Faulkner we meet in Lisa C. Hickman’s Between Grief and Nothing could have been one of his own doom-struck characters.
A Timely Reckoning
David Narrett’s magisterial, detailed The Cherokees: In War and at Peace, 1670-1840 maps the Indigenous nation’s outsized influence on the history of the republic that dispossessed them of so much land and esteem.
Busy Dreams
Over four decades, Richard Bausch has come to be regarded as one of literature’s foremost practitioners of the short story. Few have limned the struggles of the human heart in a forlorn world with comparable skill. Bausch’s people are — there’s no better way of saying it — us. His new collection, The Fate of Others, is a luminous addition to his formidable legacy.
To Stand Close and Feel Less Alone
In his new novel, Run for the Hills, Sewanee author Kevin Wilson takes readers on an unconventional road trip with four siblings eager to ask some hard questions of their long-lost father. Wilson will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 15 and Novel in Memphis on May 16.
