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Jonathan Miles

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Percival Everett’s marvelous James shakes up the American canon

An orange, teal, and yellow cover of "The Bullet Swallower." It shows two clouds, a cowboy on a horse, and a desert landscape

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A dynamic read draws from a writer’s family tree and dramatic folk ballads

Arts & Culture

A pair of writers hold the past—and themselves—to account

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New blue-ribbon reads worth a spot in the kitchen

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The author’s vivid childhood makes for a captivating look back in her new book

Travel

The island’s ferny trails zigzag into the jungle and the sea bubbles like champagne

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The author of Big Fish reaches hard-wrung reconciliation in a new memoir

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Three new collections propel Southern verse forward

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For a passionate birder, duck hunting triggers an unexpected lesson

good dog

Why settle for one dog when you can have five?

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The celebrated author delivers back-to-back knockouts

Arts & Culture

The novelist’s Great Smoky Mountains immersion laid the groundwork for his epic Pulitzer-winning tree novel. It also sparked a love affair between man and place that is upending Powers’s life and work

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Beverly Lowry’s Deer Creek Drive revisits a midcentury murder in the Delta

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Her new novel traces an incomparable equine down the stretch of history

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A new story collection revels in the messiness of life

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A compelling new history enshrines past tastemakers

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A soul-shaking narrative joins the pantheon of Southern classics

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The secrets and scandals behind the writer’s circle of high-profile women

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A native son’s story collection conjures the real Crescent City

In Good Spirits

How one writer learned to stop worrying and love the rum and Coke