Jonathan Miles
Jonathan Miles, a Garden & Gun contributing editor, has been the magazine’s books columnist since 2012. He is the author of three novels, including Anatomy of a Miracle, which was a finalist for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Fiction. A former resident of Oxford, Mississippi, he is currently Writer-in-Residence at the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Books
Beverly Lowry’s Deer Creek Drive revisits a midcentury murder in the Delta
Books
Her new novel traces an incomparable equine down the stretch of history
Books
A new story collection revels in the messiness of life
Books
A soul-shaking narrative joins the pantheon of Southern classics
Books
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
Books
A new book shares the story of their vision for an Alabama megacity
Collections
The musical renaissance man can trace his life in music with an impressive collection
books
Unpacking the new titles from Adrian Miller and Rodney Scott
Books
Beyond The Yearling, a new biography unearths the real Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Books
The Virginia native’s stunning new collection deftly wrestles with history and truth
Arts & Culture
A new tome highlights the stories of Southern writers of color
Books
No matter where you’re spending your leisure time these days, there’s a new book to delight
BOOKS
Some Go Home, Odie Lindsey’s charismatic debut novel, puts another fictional Mississippi town on the map
Arts & Culture
CNN analyst Bakari Sellers looks at the long-ignored lives of rural African Americans
Arts & Culture
In Race Against Time, a Mississippi journalist recounts the cold cases he helped solve
Adventures
In the rugged countryside around San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, a young and determined grape scene takes root