Book Reviews – Southern Literary Review

This Familiar Heart (Winedale Publishing 2024) is a moving and memorable love story about an unlikely couple whose feelings were impassioned and despite any initial hesitancy forged a loving bond...

https://southernlitreview.com/reviews/this-familiar-heart-an-improbable-love-story-by-babette-fraser-hale.htm

It was Edda Fields-Black’s Op Ed in the NYTimes that led me to COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War (Oxford University Press 2024). In the ed...

https://southernlitreview.com/reviews/combee-harriet-tubman-the-combahee-river-raid-and-black-freedom-during-the-civil-war-by-edda-fields-black.htm

Lawrence Wells knows how to tell an entertaining story, and his latest, Ghostwriter: Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron’s Royal Obsession (University of Mississippi Press ...

https://southernlitreview.com/reviews/ghostwriter-shakespeare-literary-landmines-and-an-eccentric-patrons-royal-obsession-by-lawrence-wells.htm

The Pearl Diver’s Daughter (Cloud Mountain Press 2023) by Michael David Blanchard is a collection of gently intellectual and lyrical poems which often question the place in the world for both p...

https://southernlitreview.com/reviews/the-pearl-divers-daughter-by-michael-blanchard.htm

Rhett DeVane’s latest novel, Ditch Weed (Twisted Road 2024), sparkles with her trademark humor and Southernisms. Longtime fans of her Chattahoochee stories will recognize some of the background...

https://southernlitreview.com/reviews/july-read-of-the-month-ditchweed-by-rhett-devane.htm

Summary of The Art of Her Life (Vine Leaves Press 2024) At nine years old, on her first visit to a museum, Emily fell in love with Breakfast, a painting by Henri Matisse. Now a single mother, sh...

https://southernlitreview.com/reviews/donna-meredith-interviews-cynthia-newberry-martin-author-of-the-art-of-her-life.htm