Books

This book documents the Crescent City’s surprising role in shaping the entertainment empire

The meticulously crafted world of an American style legend

As a student, author Wiley Cash discovered the work of the incomparable Louisiana writer Ernest J. Gaines. It was the start of a literary bond that has lasted two decades—and an education in the power of the place you call home

Go inside the Georgia art and design university’s forty most famous structures around the world

There’s nothing quite like a good dog story

The beloved author’s Georgia home starts a new chapter

Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel expands the Southern canon

Thoughts on rivalry football couples, dove-hunting duds, and classic Southern beach reads

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

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

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

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

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

A young Southern forager prepares for a different kind of hunting season

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