Finding Holiness
Queer Communion, edited by Davis Shoulders, gathers 13 queer writers to reflect on the meaning of faith and community.
Book Reviews
Witching Hour
Liz Parker’s Witches of Honeysuckle House captivates readers with its generation-spanning narrative as several iterations of Caldwell witches each work to break the 13-year curse on the property.
A Burst of Light from the Dark
In his third collection, Feller, East Tennessee poet Denton Loving offers moments of heightened exchange between the human and nonhuman worlds.
Crow Logos
The poems in Derelict Days in That Derelict Town, the fourth collection by Knoxvillian Alan May, embrace gilded weirdness and delicious decrepitude, but their staying power lies in their depiction of human loneliness.
A Cure as Vast as the Violence
In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, celebrated writers Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith attempted what so many of us have struggled to do: process events that have unleashed an onslaught of dangers. As a response, Jones and Smith have assembled The People’s Project, which they describe as “a community in book form.”
Parsing American Education
Jarvis R. Givens’ American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation details the interconnected stories of race in the history of U.S. education.
