Michael Ian Black makes the case for a new masculinity in A Better Man
…wear the boxiest suit and tie every day and still understand that you’re playing a role to a certain extent, because all of us are, all day and every day….
A new memoir by Lawrence Wells pulls back the curtain on a Southern literary community
…final words on the Faulkner family legacy in an autobiography, Every Day by the Sun. Wells observes, “To those born without it genius can be a forbidding heritage.” But Dean’s…
In M.O. Walsh’s endearing new novel, a strange machine disrupts life in a small Southern town
…rises at the agreed-upon time by science or God or what-have-you and the morning birds go about their usual bouncing for worms? How can you know?” Appropriately, the answer arrives…
After three decades in children’s books, acclaimed author-illustrator David Wiesner is still eager to innovate
…into some technical difficulties — until big sister Cathode, aka Cathy, saves the day with the correct assembly and an operating system update. The genesis of the book came during…
You Want More spans the career of one of the South’s most beloved storytellers
…a cast of what Sherwood Anderson and Flannery O’Connor called “grotesques”: misshapen people with wonderfully alliterative names like Mack Morris Murray, Libby Belcher, Paula Purgason, Mal Morris, and Hellbent Heidi…
Ayad Akhtar creates a powerful literary assemblage in Homeland Elegies
…unfolds across a mash of forms, from family saga to political op-ed to Muslim history. Akhtar’s parents, both doctors, came to the United States to work. Ayad was born in…
