Jonathan Miles

Arts & Culture
Geraldine Brooks Rides a Horse for the Ages
Her new novel traces an incomparable equine down the stretch of history

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A Kentucky Writer Captures the Stuff of Life
A new story collection revels in the messiness of life

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The Chefs the South Forgot
A compelling new history enshrines past tastemakers

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Imani Perry’s Unflinching Travelogue
A soul-shaking narrative joins the pantheon of Southern classics

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Truman Capote’s Notorious Female Friendships
The secrets and scandals behind the writer’s circle of high-profile women

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

In Good Spirits
A Cuba Libre for the Ages
How one writer learned to stop worrying and love the rum and Coke

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Shining a Light on Ford and Edison’s Southern Utopia
A new book shares the story of their vision for an Alabama megacity

Collections
Jon Batiste’s Marvelous Melodicas
The musical renaissance man can trace his life in music with an impressive collection

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Two New Books Exalt the Role of Black Pitmasters
Unpacking the new titles from Adrian Miller and Rodney Scott

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The Queen of Cross Creek
Beyond The Yearling, a new biography unearths the real Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Arts & Culture
Danielle Evans’s Factual Fiction
The Virginia native’s stunning new collection deftly wrestles with history and truth

Arts & Culture
An Anthology for Today’s South
A new tome highlights the stories of Southern writers of color

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Eight Late Summer Reads
No matter where you’re spending your leisure time these days, there’s a new book to delight

BOOKS
Welcome to Pitchlynn
Some Go Home, Odie Lindsey’s charismatic debut novel, puts another fictional Mississippi town on the map

Arts & Culture
Shining a Light on the Forgotten South
CNN analyst Bakari Sellers looks at the long-ignored lives of rural African Americans

Arts & Culture
A New Book Looks at Bringing Civil Rights-Era Murderers to Justice
In Race Against Time, a Mississippi journalist recounts the cold cases he helped solve

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What We’re Reading: Cat Tale
The compelling saga of the Florida panther’s comeback

Adventures
Wine’s Nuevo Frontier
In the rugged countryside around San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, a young and determined grape scene takes root

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A Virginia Writer’s Overdue Spotlight
With a new short story collection, the late Nancy Hale gets the acclaim she deserves