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

Three new collections propel Southern verse forward

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For a passionate birder, duck hunting triggers an unexpected lesson

good dog

Why settle for one dog when you can have five?

Books

The celebrated author delivers back-to-back knockouts

Arts & Culture

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

Books

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

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

Books

A new story collection revels in the messiness of life

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A compelling new history enshrines past tastemakers

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A soul-shaking narrative joins the pantheon of Southern classics

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The secrets and scandals behind the writer’s circle of high-profile women

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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

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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