Kesler reviews Hill
Saturday Review: “Good is Circumstantial” a review by Jon Kesler of Halle Hill’s short story collection Good Women Stories in NCLR Online Winter 2025
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“Waiting for America” by Mendi Lewis Obadike
Friday from the Archives: “Waiting for America” and “Isaac in Durham” two poems by Mendi Lewis Obadike from NCLR 13 (2004)
Smith reviews Eubanks and Simpson
Saturday Review: “The Lands that Shape Us” a review by Evan Peter Smith in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Georgann Eubanks’ Saving the Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction (2021) and Bland Simpson’s North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky (2021)
Moira Crone Paints New (Word) Pictures
Friday from the Archives: “The Cartography of Moira Crone: Mapping Visionary Fiction and Fantastic Futures,” the 2020 John Ehle Prize interview by Jim Grimsley from NCLR 29 (2020)
NCLR’s First 2025 Issue Introduces “LGBTQ+ Literature” Feature
The Winter online issue of the North Carolina Literary Review introduces the 2025 feature, LGBTQ+ Literature of North Carolina.
NCLR is a Living Laboratory
by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor On this Teaching Tuesday, and also just because I am so incredibly grateful, I want to celebrate NCLR’s Art Director,… Read More »NCLR is a Living Laboratory
Crone Reviews Orr
Saturday Review: “Bringing the Hidden into the Light” a review by Moira Crone in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Elaine Neil Orr’s Dancing Woman (2025) novel
“Resourceful” by Robert Morgan
Friday from the Archives: Resourceful a poem by Robert Morgan by from NCLR Online 2017
Haspel reviews Ewen & Shields
Saturday Review: “Becoming the Lost Colony” a review by Donald Paul Haspel in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Charles R. Ewen and E. Thomson Shields Jr.’s book, Becoming the Lost Colony (2024
“A Love to Die For”
Through this tale, we learn of the building passion between two friends who have just met. “And it was there, in the darkness before the rising of any moon, that Lamp looked deep into the eyes of the young man he had so carefully nurtured, whose love he had caused to grow the way a gardener grows fruit, and told him that he had a secret to reveal.”