Book Reviews

Saturday Review: “Feminism in Dark Fairy Tales,” a review by Kenly Corya of T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone (2022) and A Sorceress Comes to Call (2024) in… Read More »Corya reviews Kingfisher

Saturday Review: “so many there with me” a review by Catherine Carter in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Jessica Jacobs’ poetry collection unalone: Poems in Conversation with the Book of Genesis (2024) 

Saturday Review: “Creating a Midlife of Surprise and Delight” a review by Patricia R. Webb in NCLR Spring 2025 of Jennifer McGaha’s The Joy Document (2024).

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