Books

Introducing a new book from Garden & Gun

Brad Thomas Parsons’s book shows how working cats earn their keep at Southern distilleries and breweries

Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel expands the Southern canon

We asked the experts at independent bookstores across the South for the summer reads they’re recommending to book lovers right now

Rick Ellis’s hundreds of cookbooks preserve the South’s history one recipe at a time

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

It’s been more than fifty years since two Southern icons made one unforgettable song

Green-thumb your way through a slew of garden-inspired reads, from a farm-fresh cookbook to a collection of essays by beloved Southern naturalists

An author and historian shares his reading list for a trip to the Gulf Coast

One of the best stories you’ve never heard about Arnold Palmer

An interview with writer John T. Edge about his new book, The Potlikker Papers

A closer look at contemporary floral design in a new book about farm-to-vase flowers

Eighty thousand miles with the legendary photographer

Traveling eighty thousand miles through forty-eight states, photographer Jack Spencer left no road unexplored

A new book inspires an outdoor adventurer’s guide to “America’s Sea”—from Padre Island to Cedar Key

The musician’s buoyant new biography sings

Showcasing President George W. Bush’s tribute to America’s servicemen and women

One of the original country outlaws returns with a new album and a new autobiography

Meet three hidden culinary figures who fed America’s First Families

A new coffee table book shares both that far-reaching past and the island’s present-day beauty