Arts & Culture

New books out this month, including Appalachian noir, a definitive sports biography, a coastal mystery, and a cookbook that’s quite cheesy

A vanishing Virginia island foretells a changing coastline

At 78, the oldest still-performing siren shares stories of Florida’s Weeki Wachee mermaids

Photographer Mark Selinger captures a story in each portrait

A New Orleans artist breathes new life into death

Guy Martin doles out advice on the perfect playlist, the history of a country-road wave, and who runs the show down South

In praise of good Southern men

With the Open Canon Book Club, the North Carolina author Wiley Cash seeks to bring underrepresented authors to the fore

With the help of some very impressive role models

How the Greenville, South Carolina artist found her purpose in a paintbrush

This six-year-old from Gainesville, Georgia, has already read thousands of books—and she’s just getting started

The prolific author speaks on growing up in the mountains, fiction’s role in society, and why biscuits are something worth celebrating

The renowned Southern business woman talks philanthropy, small-town memories, and the glory of being underestimated

The comedian reflects on Mississippi, motherhood, and the charm of eccentricity

The Savannah native had a knack for memorializing the Southern sensations of heat and humidity

Summer is here and so are new novels, a collection from Julia Reed, beach lit, a beautiful typography book, and one wiggly memoir.

Twenty of the most-read items published this year on gardenandgun.com

Experience life around the South with these great accounts

A summer soiree at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens in Nashville.

Notables such as Emmylou Harris and Ethan Hawke hop in the back of Elvis Presley’s Rolls-Royce to muse on the rocker and America in a new documentary