Jonathan Miles
Books
Percival Everett’s marvelous James shakes up the American canon
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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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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
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 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
In Good Spirits
How one writer learned to stop worrying and love the rum and Coke