Book Reviews

Saturday Review in 2022: Read NCLR founding editor Alex Albright’s review of Jim Grimsley’s 2015 memoir, How I Shed My Skin.

Saturday Review in 2022: Read Kristina Knotts’s review of What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster and One Kind Favor by Kevin Mcllvoy. Please buy… Read More »A review by Regular Reviewer Kristie Knotts

Saturday Review in 2022: Read Anna McFadyen’s review of Waltz in Swing Time by Jill Caugherty. Inspired by the letters from her maternal grandparents (in… Read More »A review by Anna McFadyen

For this Memorial Day weekend Saturday Review in 2022, read a review from our 2014 War in NC Lit issue, of Katey Schultz’s short story… Read More »Flashes of War by Katey Schultz

Saturday Review in 2022: Since we announced our CNF Prize winner yesterday, today we will share a review of a memoir: Thanks to Judy Goldman… Read More »Mirinda Kossoff’s New Memoir

Saturday Review in 2022: Read Helen Stead’s review of Jason Mott’s National Book Award winning novel! NCLR Editor Margaret Bauer will be teaching this novel… Read More »Jason Mott’s National Book Award Novel

Saturday Review in 2022: Read Laura Hope-Gill’s review of Blind Man’s Bluff by James Tate Hill, a memoir in which the author shares his experience… Read More »A review by Laura Hope-Gill

We already shared Dale Bailey’s Winter 2022 issue book review, but today’s Independent Bookstore Day, and his review features photos from some of North Carolina’s… Read More »Happy Independent Bookstore Day!

Saturday Review in 2022: Read Sharon E. Colley’s review of the 2021 Lee Smith Novel Prize winner, The Baddest Girl on the Planet by Heather… Read More »A review by Sharon E. Colley

“What would Lee Roberts think of his son Terry’s latest novel? Set on Ellis Island, it is a hard-boiled detective thriller, the type of book Mr. Roberts was addicted to, short chapters and all.