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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 real-life atrocity inspires Colson Whitehead’s heartbreaking new novel

Books

An iconic landscape architect’s Southern trek, revisited

Books

A quintessential collection of fishing essays still hooks the heart

Books

The lauded poet’s new collection entwines the South’s history with her own

Arts & Culture

Four new releases shake up the region’s culinary traditions

Books

A vanishing Virginia island foretells a changing coastline

Books

A preacher forced to examine his beliefs forsakes fire and brimstone for love

Books

A historian scopes out the country’s bond with hunting

Books

Two powerful new books find the justice system guilty

Books

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

Books

The meticulously crafted world of an American style legend

Artists

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

Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel expands the Southern canon

Books

A journalist delves into the riveting truth behind a series of mysterious fires in Virginia

Adventures

The host to this summer’s America’s Cup, Bermuda is gearing up for a new generation of travelers

Books

The musician’s buoyant new biography sings

Drinks

Bartenders are generating buzz with inventive cocktails for the craft brew age

Books

Clouds gather just beyond the horizon in these short stories set in the Yellowhammer State

Drinks

Distillers are taking apple brandy back to its roots

Drinks

Reclaiming the integrity of the frozen drink