Book Reviews

Saturday Review: “Cursed throughout Time” a review by Kenly Corya of Adrienne Young’s The Unmaking of June Farrow in NCLR Online Spring 2026

Saturday Review: “The Power of Redemption in Poetry,” a review by Grace C. Ocasio of Gail Peck’s In the Shadow of Beauty (Finishing Line Press,… Read More »Ocasio reviews Peck

Saturday Review: “A Writer’s Toolkit,” a review by Sayantani Dasgupta of Nora Shalaway Carpenter’s Spinning Toward the Sun: Essays on Writing, Resilience, & the Creative… Read More »Dasgupta reviews Carpenter

Saturday Review: “A Voice Out Here in the Chaos,” a review by Barbara Bennett of Jason Mott’s People Like Us (2025) in NCLR Online Spring… Read More »Bennett reviews Mott

Saturday Review: “History Is in Your Veins: Etaf Rum Examines Healing from Generational Trauma,” a review by Olivia Cash of Etaf Rum’s Evil Eye: A… Read More »Cash reviews Rum

Saturday Review: “Lifting the Veil: The Invisible World of Mental Health Care,” a review by Donna Summerlin of Hannah Thurman’s Mercy Hill (2026), in NCLR… Read More »Summerlin reviews Thurman

Saturday Review: “A Family by Any Other Name,” a review by Sheryl Cornett of Sharon Kurtzman’s The Lost Baker of Vienna (2025) in NCLR Online… Read More »Cornett reviews Kurtzman

Saturday Review: “From peaks to Pirates: Mysteries of North Carolina” a review by Benjamin Bradley of Carol Ann Collins The Seafarer’s Secret (2024) and Archer… Read More »Bradley reviews Collins and Sullivan

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… Read More »Beadle reviews Emerson

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),… Read More »Godwin reviews Wood