Book Reviews

Saturday Review: “History, Memoir, and Novel,” a review by E. Thomson Shields, Jr. of Approaches to Teaching Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave… Read More »Shields reviews Domina

Saturday Review: “Story of a Place” a review by Evan Peter Smith of Lee Bland Simpson’s Clover Gardens: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir (2024) in NCLR… Read More »Smith reviews Simpson

Saturday Review: “Always Ready, Always There: Musings of a Citizen Soldier,” a review by Jon Kesler of This We’ll Defend by Paul Crenshaw (2019), in… Read More »Kesler reviews Crenshaw

Saturday Review: “Before Helene,” a review by Eric Walker of Wayne Caldwell’s poetry collection River Road, and novel Shadow Family in NCLR Online Winter 2026

Saturday Review: “‘Sweet Sweat’ and ‘Plainsongs’: The Lyrical Reclamation of Place,” a review by Annie Woodford of Forrest Rapier’s As the Den Burns (2022) and… Read More »Woodford reviews Rapier and White

Saturday Review: “The Speech of the Place,” a review by David E. Poston of Britt Kaufmann’s Midlife Calculus and Tony Robles’s Where the Warehouse Things… Read More »Poston reviews Kaufmann and Robles

Saturday Review: “The Interrogating Partiality: Questioning as a Path Toward the Whole Truth” a review by Sterling Neill of Carol Baldwin’s Half-Truths (2025) in NCLR… Read More »Neill reviews Baldwin

Saturday Review: “Timelessness and Human Connection” a review by Lisa Wenger Bro of The Miniaturist’s Assistant by Katherine Scott Crawford in NCLR Online Winter 2026… Read More »Bro reviews Crawford

Saturday Review: “Virtually Real,” a review by Barbara Bennett of Lindsay Starck’s Monsters We Have Made (2024), in NCLR Online Winter 2026 

Saturday Review: “Paying Closer Attention to the Word and the World: McIlvoy’s Radical Reordering of Writerly Advice,” a review of Kevin McIlvoy’s Willingness: A Writer’s… Read More »Neal reviews McIlvoy