Arts & Culture

Editors, contributors, and Southern booksellers share the new novels, fresh nonfiction, and even a couple of cookbooks at the top of their book stacks

After fifty years, his Bentonia Blues Festival is still going strong

Hillary Waters Fayle ties together embroidery and nature in her Richmond studio

Fancy digs for fowl from a North Carolina maker

Your hot-weather guide to icy drinks, breezy waterways, stargazing hideouts, the ultimate ice cream cone piled high with Southern scoops, and one idyllically refreshing mountain weekend

Fresh finds for lazy summer days on the shore

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

Even fifty-five years later, nobody holds a candle to Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke

In his timely new novel, the eighty-five-year-old literary titan shares more of himself than ever before

Garden & Gun hosted its second annual G&G Shoot-Out Golf Tournament at the historic Southern estate

Ideal finds for the gardener, griller, boater, and more

The rising star can swing from New Orleans jazz to Hollywood’s latest hit without skipping a beat

No. 1: You could win $10,000

A father-son Myrtle Beach trip reveals the South’s quirkiest, and some say best, miniature golf course

Musician and fly fisherman Woody Platt casts just outside Asheville

Arriving at a truce between leafy greens

Stunning describes both the victory by 80-to-1 long shot Rich Strike in the 148th Kentucky Derby and the stylish attire on display at Churchill Downs for the Derby and Kentucky Oaks. Photographer Nerissa Sparkman captured all the fantastic looks.

This May marks 300 years since Mark Catesby chronicled the South

Remembering the country music star from Kentucky, who died at age 76

Find a memorable wedding present with the help of these three Southern shops