Book Reviews

Saturday Review: “The Stories We Tell – And Don’t Tell” a review by Julia Ridley Smith of Inside the Wolf by Amy Rowland (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2024

Saturday Review: “An Agatha Christie Mystery – NOT Written By Agatha Christie”
a review by Shane Trayers of The Christie Affair (2023) by Nina de Gramont.

Saturday Review: “Split Identity and Shades of Local Color Writing” a review by Charles Duncan in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of Jacinda Townsend’s novel Mother Country (2022)

Saturday Review: “Community as Witness in West Mills” a review by Kristina L. Knotts in NCLR Online Winter 2024
De’Shawn Charles Winslow. Decent People (2023)

Saturday Review: “Found Magic” a review by J.S. Absher in NCLR Online Winter 2024
Joan Barasovska. Orange Tulips (2022)
Janis Harrington. How to Cut a Woman in Half (2022)

Saturday Review: “Poetry of Place” a review by Chris Abbate in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of Forever Eighty-Eights (2022) by Molly Rice

Saturday Review: “Writing The Hurt” a review by John Lang in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of Charles Dodd White. A Year without Months (2022)

Saturday Review: “To Love The South Surgically” a review by Zackary Vernon in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of The Late Rebellion (2024) by Mark Powell. “The Late Rebellion showcases Powell’s deep understanding of Southern cultures as well as his ability to distill the nuances of American life when everything around us seems precarious.”

Saturday Review: “From Big Pine to Jazz: Making A Life With Pizzazz” a review by Rebecca Godwin in NCLR Online Winter 2024
Terry Roberts. The Sky Club (2022)

Saturday Review: “Lightening Strikes Twice” a review by Al-Tariq Moore in NCLR Online Winter 2024
Randall Kenan. Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings (2022)

This new collection of various essays published elsewhere allows the reader of Kenan’s lauded fiction a deeper understanding of the writer crafting the stories.