Beadle reviews Emerson
Saturday Review: “Fruit of the Vine: Poems to Savor and Sustain,” a review by Michael Beadle of Claudia Emerson’s ungrafted (2024), in NCLR Online Spring 2026
Book Reviews
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.
Godwin reviews Wood
Saturday Review: “First in Flight: The Woman Behind the Wright Brothers,” a review by Rebecca Godwin of Tracey Enerson Wood’s Katharine, the Wright Sister: A Novel (2024), in NCLR Online Spring 2026
Hans reviews Gulledge
Saturday Review: “Gulledge’s Love Letter” a review by Shelby Hans of Green Forest, Red Earth, Blue Sea by Jim Gulledge in NCLR Spring 2026
Neill Reviews Harris
Saturday Review: “Inheriting Emotional Repression: Love, Loss, and Legacy,” a review by Sterling Neill of Terah Shelton Harris’s Long After We Are Gone in NCLR Online Spring 2026
Cory reviews York and Kirkpatrick
Saturday Review: “Learning to Listen in Western North Carolina,” a review by Jessica Cory of John Thomas York’s The Charge (2024) and Kathryn Kirkpatrick’s Creature (2025), in NCLR Online Spring 2026.
West reviews Brantley-Newton and Myers
Saturday Review: “Stories of Self-Acceptance,” a review by Mark I. West of Vanessa Brantley-Newton’s Becoming Vanessa (2021) and Maya Myers’s Not Perfect (2024), in NCLR Online Spring 2026
Shields reviews Domina
Saturday Review: “History, Memoir, and Novel,” a review by E. Thomson Shields, Jr. of Approaches to Teaching Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl edited by Lynn Domina (2024) in NCLR Online Spring 2026
Smith reviews Simpson
Saturday Review: “Story of a Place” a review by Evan Peter Smith of Lee Bland Simpson’s Clover Gardens: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir (2024) in NCLR Online Spring 2026
Kesler reviews Crenshaw
Saturday Review: “Always Ready, Always There: Musings of a Citizen Soldier,” a review by Jon Kesler of This We’ll Defend by Paul Crenshaw (2019), in NCLR Online Spring 2026.
Walker review Caldwell
Saturday Review: “Before Helene,” a review by Eric Walker of Wayne Caldwell’s poetry collection River Road, and novel Shadow Family in NCLR Online Winter 2026