“New Stories From the South” makes its return after a sixteen-year hiatus with a new home at Blair.

A review of Patricia Grace King’s new short story collection, “Those Who Vanish.”

A review of Kata Suvorova’s new memoir, “Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter.”

A review of Deesha Philyaw’s new novel, “The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman.”

A review of Jarett Kobek’s superbly crafted slip genre novel, “ATTA.”

A review of “Sombeody is Walking on Your Grave” by Maria Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell, now out in paperback.

A review of Meghana Mysore’s debut short story collection, “Let All Our Ghosts Depart.”

In this circling novel, Andrea Bajani explores what we owe the families we leave behind, and whether we can ever truly escape them.

A review of Joanna Klink’s sixth poetry collection, “Days & Chances.”

A review of Katy Simpson Smith’s “The Maltese Version.”

A review of Sarah Addison Allen’s newest novel, “Paper Ghosts.”

This debut is a collection of captivating and true vignettes about bodega customers who are as human and colorful as they are industrious.

We are so excited to reveal the cover of Lena and Rae by Kim Church, which will be published on March 23, 2027 by Dzanc Books. Read on for more about the process of designing this beautiful co…

SRB editor Chaney Hill considers the waterways of Texas and elsewhere.

A review of Kendra Allen’s novel, “Good Morning Means I Love You.”

A review of Drew Buxton’s new novel, “Daytona Teddy Riggs.”

It’s time for the last interview of the 2026 Southern Summer Book Club! Listen to Bradley Sides and Spencer K.M. Brown discuss his new short story collection, “Slow Fire.”

A review of Chelsea Rathburn’s recent poetry collection, “Broken Houses.”

Yet even wrangling against existential horrors, Wright reminds readers that even this imperfect moment in which we exist is worth noting carefully and archiving.

A review of Katherine Conner’s new collection of linked stories, “The Hanged Man.”

A review of Justin Wymer’s poetry collection, “Let the Forest Go.”

The third installment of our Southern Summer Book Club features Spencer K.M. Brown’s “Slow Fire.”

Check out this non-exhaustive list of the best Southern books of July 2026.

From teenage friendship and class inequality to comedy and the long road to publication, Richardson reflects on the ideas and experiences that shaped Paradise Pawn.

A review of Scott McClanahan’s newest book, “Fights!”

Check out the second installment of the 2026 Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides and Tommy Hays!

A review of Mark Haber’s novel “Ava.”

Stephanie Soileau’s new novel, “Should the Waters Take Us,” is an all-encompassing epoch that spans generations, geography, and even climate.

A review of Katriona Chapman’s newest graphic novel, “The Pass.”

Lee Cole’s sophomore novel, “Fulfillment,” drops readers directly into the political, class, and economic divides wrenching America apart, unspooled through a story about two half-broth…

Part two of The Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides focusing on “The Marriage Bed” by Tommy Hays.

To dominate is intimacy’s opposite in Rebecca Gayle Howell’s “Erase Genesis.”

A review of Lauren Hough’s new memoir, “Monster of a Land.”

Celebrate Pride by reading one of the queer Southern fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books published in the first half of the year.

Rayelle Davis’ Money in the Mountains: The Cultural Trauma of Appalachia makes a clear, compelling argument: “Generational trauma and poverty aren’t the problems in Appalachia. They are the symptom…

Check out the first video interview in our 2026 Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides and Aimee Nezhukumatathil!

Roadside eateries function as unlikely archives of Southern community, migration, and cultural change in “Get It While It’s Hot.”

Joe Bond’s “Hope House” is a thoroughly human story told with grace, humor, and tenderness.

“Woodlands of the Mind” explores fifteen hidden university forests and the fragile histories that allow them to endure.

Weird is good. Everything is weird when observed through an unfamiliar lens.

A review of Siew Hii’s “Entered Some Aliens.”

A review of Kristin Entler’s debut poetry collection, “Of Water Never Ceasing.”

DéLana R.A. Dameron’s second novel, Fairfield County, published posthumously, spans four generations of Black horsemen and -women, from 1937 to 2014.

A review of Ina Cariño’s sophomore poetry collection, “Reverse Requiem.”

A review of Louise Marburg’s “Fancy Meeting You.”

A review of Ann Patchett’s “Whistler.”

Join us for the first book of our Southern Summer Book Club, the poetry collection “Night Owl” by Aimee Nezukumatathil.