Jonathan Miles

Arts & Culture
Shining a Light on the Forgotten South
CNN analyst Bakari Sellers looks at the long-ignored lives of rural African Americans

Arts & Culture
A New Book Looks at Bringing Civil Rights-Era Murderers to Justice
In Race Against Time, a Mississippi journalist recounts the cold cases he helped solve

Books
What We’re Reading: Cat Tale
The compelling saga of the Florida panther’s comeback

Adventures
Wine’s Nuevo Frontier
In the rugged countryside around San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, a young and determined grape scene takes root

Books
A Virginia Writer’s Overdue Spotlight
With a new short story collection, the late Nancy Hale gets the acclaim she deserves

Books
Sean Brock’s New Cookbook and a Foxfire Reissue Sing in Harmony
An Appalachian Duet: Two books to add to your shelf this fall

Books
Halls of Horror: The Nickel Boys
A real-life atrocity inspires Colson Whitehead’s heartbreaking new novel

Books
History Repeats
An iconic landscape architect’s Southern trek, revisited

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Catch and Rerelease
A quintessential collection of fishing essays still hooks the heart

Books
Natasha Trethewey’s Living Testament
The lauded poet’s new collection entwines the South’s history with her own

Arts & Culture
Must-Have New Southern Cookbooks
Four new releases shake up the region’s culinary traditions

Books
Time and Tide on Chesapeake’s Tangier Island
A vanishing Virginia island foretells a changing coastline

Books
Hell and High Water
A preacher forced to examine his beliefs forsakes fire and brimstone for love

Books
America the Bountiful
A historian scopes out the country’s bond with hunting

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Trials and Errors
Two powerful new books find the justice system guilty

Books
Gifts by the Book
You could put a bow on the latest best seller, but why not get creative?

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The Bon Vivant of Bunny Mellon
The meticulously crafted world of an American style legend

Artists
Margo Price: Diamond in the Rough
The rising Nashville star mines the bruising truth of her past for refreshingly real-life lyrics—songs that recall the best of what country music can be

Books
Haunting Melody
Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel expands the Southern canon

Books
What We’re Reading: Smoldering Love
A journalist delves into the riveting truth behind a series of mysterious fires in Virginia