Southern Review of Books

A book about a place is more than about the place itself; it is about the people who inhabit it, the norms and culture they create within it, the times in which they live. Amaris Castillo’s Bodega Stories, a collection of sixty-six vignettes about the D...

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 cover!

Lena and Rae is a moving story of lo...

I’ve been thinking a lot about water this summer. Where it comes from and where it goes. I grew up in a little-known town in Texas next to other little-known towns. One of these towns is not so little known anymore. Not since July of 2025, anyway. Not since the Guadalupe River swept in from the headwaters under cover of night and washed away whole worlds in one fell swoop.

Kendra Allen’s first novel, Good Morning Means I Love You, follows the trials of a free-spirited young Texas woman named Raenell (“Rae”) and her unorthodox family, which comprises her two male partners, Noon and Micah; the children they share, Morning a...

Maybe your summer has one last beach trip. And if it does, put Drew Buxton’s Daytona Teddy Riggs in with your towels. If characters from History of Heartache by Patrick Strickland worked out in a gym with the plot of Shome Dasgupta’s The Mu...