Book Reviews

Saturday Review: “An Argument for Authenticity” a review by Elaine Thomas in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Daniel Wallace’s This Isn’t Going to End Well (2023)

Saturday Review: “The Baroque Power of Nathan Ballingrud’s New Novella,” a review by Dale Bailey, forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Nathan Ballingrud’s novella Crypt of the Moon Spider (2024). 

Saturday Review: “A Wry Exploration of Middle-Aged Womanhood” a review by Heather Bell Adams forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Julia Ridley Smith’s Sex Romp Gone Wrong 

“‘how else not be lost'” by Robert M. West, forthcoming in NCLR Online Fall 2024 of James Seay’s’s Come! Come! Where? Where? (2024)

Saturday Review: “Timely Portrayals of a Place” a review by Elaine Thomas forthcoming in NCLR Online Fall 2024 of David Joy’s Those We Thought We… Read More »Thomas Reviews Joy and Willis

“Growing Gracefully” by Amber Knox, forthcoming in NCLR Online Fall 2024 of Karen Jones’s The Summer of Grace (2022)

“Space and Time in the Appalachians” John Charles Ryan forthcoming in NCLR Online Fall 2024 of Loss Pequeño Glazier’s Transparent Mountain: Ecopoetry from the Great Smokies (2022).

“More True Than Slant” a review by David E. Poston in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Christie Collins’ novel The Art of Coming Undone (2023) and Ross White’s novel Charm Offensive (2023)

Saturday Review: “Finding The Place” a review by Jamie Tews in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Kristine Langley Mahler’s novel Curing Season: Artifacts (2022)