Family, Memory, and Truth
Florence, the debut poetry collection by Knoxvillian Bess Cooley, is a euphonic meditation on family, memory, and truth that plays with time and form.
Book Reviews
The Long Grasp of War
How and when did the Civil War end? That’s the question examined by Michael Vorenberg in Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War. There is no simple answer, and his investigation leads to uncomfortable questions about the nature of war in today’s world.
A Piercing Wail
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Reckoning by V (formerly Eve Ensler) asks readers to understand what violence does to women and anyone who is marginalized.
Ghosts and Strangers
In Alice Austen’s debut novel, 33 Place Brugmann, residents of a Brussels apartment building resist the German occupation by preserving art, beauty, and kindness. Austen will discuss 33 Place Brugmann at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 13.
Song of My Songs
Daniel Black’s ninth book, Isaac’s Song, is a novel about Black gay becoming in the 1980s. It dunks us into the colorful life and language of Isaac Swinton, carrying us through recollections of his rigid childhood in Missouri and life in Chicago amidst the AIDS crisis.
Sisterhood
Bridgett Davis’ second family memoir, Love, Rita, creates a vivid portrait of her sister, a woman of resourcefulness, perseverance, and elegance whose life was cut short by illness and the harmful effects of systemic racism.
