Book Reviews

Saturday Review in 2022! Jenn Brandt explains how the North Carolina setting of Megan Goldin’s The Night Swim works so well for the novel’s exploration… Read More »A Novel for Our Times

Saturday Review in 2022: For NCLR Online Fall 2022, Jim Kirkland reviewed two recent collections by Scott Owens.

Saturday Review in 2022: Read Dennis Turner’s review essay on TWO-TIME Doris Betts Fiction Prize winner Robert Wallace’s new short story collection in NCLR Online… Read More »Two-Time Betts Prize Winner’s New Short Story Collection Reviewed

Saturday Review in 2022: Saddened to hear of the sudden passing last week of a member of the North Carolina writing community, Kevin McIlvoy, we… Read More »Beloved Writer/Teacher Kevin McIlvoy

Saturday Review in 2022! Our premiere Fall issue continues to feature Writers Who Teach, Teachers Who Write, including Julia Ridley Smith, whose memoir is reviewed… Read More »A Writer Teacher’s New Memoir Reviewed in Forthcoming Fall Issue

Saturday Review in 2022! With the Doris Betts Fiction Prize contest accepting submissions now, read Dale Neal’s review of 2 collections of short stories, forthcoming… Read More »2 New Short Story Collections

Saturday Review in 2022! With submissions open for the Doris Betts Fiction Prize, we share a review from back in 1998 of the first book… Read More »Book about Doris Betts

Saturday Review in 2022: Forthcoming in the premiere fall issue of NCLR Online, read this review of Heather Newton’s short story collection McMullen Circle, published… Read More »New Short Story Collection by Heather Newton

Saturday Review in 2022: With our first fall online issue due out in October, we start this week with sharing book reviews forthcoming in it,… Read More »Photo Albums and (Un)Familiar Faces

Saturday Review in 2022: remembering NCLR 2004’s review of Michael Malone’s The Last Noel. Read it here.