Jonathan Miles

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Around the World in Five Southern Cookbooks
New blue-ribbon reads worth a spot in the kitchen

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Anne Hull’s Ever-Changing Florida
The author’s vivid childhood makes for a captivating look back in her new book

Travel
On Dominica, the Ultimate Caribbean Castaway Experience
The island’s ferny trails zigzag into the jungle and the sea bubbles like champagne

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Daniel Wallace Reckons with His Real-Life Idol
The author of Big Fish reaches hard-wrung reconciliation in a new memoir

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Poetry in Motion: Three New Southern Collections
Three new collections propel Southern verse forward

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A Bird-Watcher’s Epiphanies in the Blind
For a passionate birder, duck hunting triggers an unexpected lesson

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Keeping Up with the Pack
Why settle for one dog when you can have five?

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The Return of Cormac McCarthy
The celebrated author delivers back-to-back knockouts

Arts & Culture
Richard Powers’s Wild Voice
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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Going Deep on a Mysterious Mississippi Matricide
Beverly Lowry’s Deer Creek Drive revisits a midcentury murder in the Delta

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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