Arts & Culture

The Dog That Stole Rick Bragg’s Heart

She was two dogs high, half a dog wide, and the only animal to ever run away with an Alabama author’s heart

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Books

Shining a Light on Ford and Edison’s Southern Utopia

A new book shares the story of their vision for an Alabama megacity

Books

The Queen of Cross Creek

Beyond The Yearling, a new biography unearths the real Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Arts & Culture

Meet the Mississippi Novelist Taking On F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Mississippi author Michael Farris Smith shares an imaginative new take on The Great Gatsby, plus the books he’s been reading and the bourbon he’s been drinking

Arts & Culture

New Reads for Right Now

The best of January and February’s book releases for Southern readers—powerful memoirs, novels that turn myths inside out, a beautiful collection of photos, and an ode to good old dogs

Arts & Culture

The Top-of-2021 Reading List for Southerners

G&G contributors, editors, and Southern book lovers share new releases and old favorites to read right away this year—and a couple forthcoming releases already on preorder

Arts & Culture

Our Favorite Books for Southerners in 2020

Dozens of memoirs, novels, and nonfiction books that got us through a year unlike any other

Arts & Culture

Danielle Evans’s Factual Fiction

The Virginia native’s stunning new collection deftly wrestles with history and truth

Arts & Culture

Peek Inside the Homes of Some of the South’s Most Creative People

Inspiration abounds in a beautiful new coffee table book

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Weather

Hurricane Warnings: What You Need to Know in 2021

The forecast, what it means, and the surprising change to what counts as an “average” season

Arts & Culture

What Juneteenth Means to Me

Five of the holiday’s spirit bearers share how they are helping keep the emancipation celebration alive in the twenty-first century

Arts & Culture

Talking Fatherhood with TV Anchor and New Author Craig Melvin

In his debut book, the newscaster and South Carolina native writes about what it means to become a father, and how he learned to understand his own distant dad