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.
Miller posits “[the] connections emphasize the Faulknerian theme of Southern literature that the past is never fully gone. As past decisions and tragedies continue to reverberate, the very landscape contains a history of trauma.”
“The result is warm and respectful, even as the family in Meredith’s novel wrestles with the burdens of their personal and collective demons.”
For the last Saturday Review in 2022, here is the first of the reviews forthcoming in the Winter 2023 online issue, due out in February:… Read More »Last Review of the Year, First from Winter 2023 Online Issue
“Jeffrey Franklin still finds his figures of poet and homely muse in the fields and healing woods of North Carolina.”
“As she works through her memories of the past and her love for Mattie, Goldman asks, and answers, a number of smaller mysteries.”
“The Best of Me demonstrates emphatically that David Sedaris relishes placing Homo sapiens beneath the proverbial microscope.”
We published Susan O’Dell Underwood’s review of the winning book, In the Lonely Backwater, as part of our fall issue online.
“Spectral Pegasus / Dark Movements is a rich collection of poetry, visual art, and music that transcends customary boundaries between aesthetic discipline.”
Moser draws the reader’s attention from The Last Battleground straight through to Gerard’s award-winning book Cape Fear Rising.
Saturday Review in 2022: For NCLR Online Fall 2022, Jim Clark reviews new work by Paul Jones and Al Maginnes. Calendar pages turn. Leaves fall… Read More »“Bless all that rusts and ages”: Clark on Jones & Maginnes