Saturday Review: “Wolf and McGee in the Outfield” a review by Shelby Hans in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Thomas Wolf’s The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (2023) and Ryan McGee’s Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer, at the Perfect Ballpark, at the Perfect Time (2023)
Friday from the Archives: “Actaeon and Diana” by Alan Shapiro with art by Frank Hunter in NCLR 2004
Our Spring issue, due out for release later this month, contains a new short story by Jim Grimsley, poetry from the ’24 Applewhite contest, 21 book reviews, and more!
Saturday Review: “Impermanent Tableau” a review by David Poston forthcoming in the NCLR Online Spring 2025 of John Amen’s poetry collection, Dark Souvenir (2024).
Friday from the Archives: “Blossoming Poplars,” “Unpublished Interview,” “Repairing the Farmhouse,” “The Home Place,” and “Along the Ridge”: five poems by James Applewhite with art by Paul Hartley in NCLR 2010
The 2025 Poetry Contest judges are…
Saturday Review: “The Search for Truth in Ariel Dorfman’s The Suicide Museum” a review by Lisa Wenger Bro of Ariel Dorfman’s novel The Suicide Museum (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Friday from the Archives: “Teaching the Darkness Away: Humanities, History and Education” an essay by Christie Hinson Norris in NCLR 30 (2021)
Saturday Review: “In a Beautiful but Fallen World” a review by James Kirkland of J.S. Absher’s Skating Rough Ground (2022) poetry collection in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Friday from the Archives: “Carolina Outlier: An Interview with María DeGuzmán” by Joan Conwell with photography by María DeGuzmán in NCLR 2013