Southern Review of Books

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 symptoms of collective abuse.” Davis supports this statement with historical and...

I can’t believe that it’s almost the end of Pride month! I hope you’ve all spent time finding joy and community and fighting for a better world. If you’re hoping to add something to your Pride month activities (that doesn’t require glitter or sweating outside), check out this non-exhaustive list of queer Southern books published in the first half of the year.

It’s finally time to debut our first installment of the 2026 Southern Summer Book Club with a conversation between Bradley Sides and Aimee Nezhukumatathil! If you missed Bradley’s introduction to NIGHT OWL, don’t forget to che...

The food writing anthology Get It While It’s Hot, edited by professors Shelley Ingram of the University of Louisiana, Casey Kayser of the University of Arkansas, and Constance Bailey of Georgia State University, is, first and foremost, a textbook for an...

“At Hope, we were capable of cruelty, of pettiness and bullying,” Joe Bond writes in Hope House, his debut novel, “but also we believed it when Watts told us that our lives were in each other’s hands.” True to this insight, Bond’s novel does not fixate on the w...