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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

A new story collection revels in the messiness of life

Books

A compelling new history enshrines past tastemakers

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

Books

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

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

Books

The compelling saga of the Florida panther’s comeback

Adventures

In the rugged countryside around San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, a young and determined grape scene takes root

Books

With a new short story collection, the late Nancy Hale gets the acclaim she deserves

Books

An Appalachian Duet: Two books to add to your shelf this fall