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.
Book Reviews
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.
Southern Spies
Everybody Wants to Rule the World, a rollicking spy novel by Ace Atkins, is set mostly in Atlanta in 1985, known as “The Year of the Spy.” Soviet and American spycraft, combined with Atkins’ drop-dead Southern observations, creates a tale that reads like a mashup of Robert Ludlum and Charles Portis. Atkins will speak at Novel in Memphis on December 3.
