Jonathan Miles

In College Sports: A History, a century and a half of intercollegiate matchups goes to the replay booth

The author’s sublime new novel fathoms the wonder of the sea

For your gustatory pleasure, a pick of the year’s standout offerings

Andy, Opie, and the gang offer solace to writer Evan Dalton Smith

Lubbock inspires a melding of art and music like no other

Percival Everett’s marvelous James shakes up the American canon

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

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

New blue-ribbon reads worth a spot in the kitchen

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

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

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

Three new collections propel Southern verse forward

For a passionate birder, duck hunting triggers an unexpected lesson

Why settle for one dog when you can have five?

The celebrated author delivers back-to-back knockouts

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

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

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

A new story collection revels in the messiness of life