NCLR shares a Saturday Review Post weekly: usually a book review from the most recent or forthcoming online issue, but sometimes, in recognition of current events, from a back issue.
Saturday Review: “Wolf and McGee in the Outfield” a review by Shelby Hans in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Thomas Wolf’s The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (2023) and Ryan McGee’s Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer, at the Perfect Ballpark, at the Perfect Time (2023)
Saturday Review: “Impermanent Tableau” a review by David Poston forthcoming in the NCLR Online Spring 2025 of John Amen’s poetry collection, Dark Souvenir (2024).
Saturday Review: “The Search for Truth in Ariel Dorfman’s The Suicide Museum” a review by Lisa Wenger Bro of Ariel Dorfman’s novel The Suicide Museum (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Saturday Review: “In a Beautiful but Fallen World” a review by James Kirkland of J.S. Absher’s Skating Rough Ground (2022) poetry collection in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Saturday Review: “What Blooms in the Wildwood?” a review by Amber Knox of Marly Youmans’ book Seren of the Wildwood (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Saturday Review: “The Images That Made Us” a review by Terry Roberts of Brent Martin’s book George Masa’s Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Saturday Review: “Have No Fear: David Sedaris is Still Here” a review by Jennifer McGaha of David Sedaris’ collection Happy-Go-Lucky in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Saturday Review: “‘What the mountains and forests did for me’: A Fine Collection of Kephart’s Words” a review by Rebecca Godwin of Mae Miller Claxton and George Frizzel’s collection Horace Kephart: Writings in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Saturday Review: “A New Playground,” a review by Wendy Tilley of Susan Reinhardt’s novel The Beautiful Misfits (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Saturday Review: “Good is Circumstantial” a review by Jon Kesler of Halle Hill’s short story collection Good Women Stories in NCLR Online Winter 2025