Southern Review of Books

Everything about Anjali Enjeti’s newest book, Ballot, is deceptively small at first glance. Part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series, Ballot is compactly sized, standing at 6.45 inches tall and clocking in at 136 pages. But like Enjeti’s prev...

“This story does not start at the same old party.
I would have to be the same old girl for that.”

Nancy Lemann has always kept a diary.

In a recent interview with Snowden Wright for the Oxford American, Lema...

In Queen of Bats: And Other Stories, a tight, novella-length collection of just four short stories, debut author Rachel Reeher makes a statement on the expectations of womanhood and grief, undermining and calling into question conventions and tropes through an una...

I am excited to announce that The Southern Summer Book Club is back for another round, y’all! We hope you’ll join us as we continue to build literary communities throughout the South. Plus, being a part of our book club is a great way to celebrate contemporary Southern lit. And I know we all love that!

Without further ado, I’m thrilled to announce our reads for this...

The opening phrase for Meg Shaffer’s latest novel, The Book Witch, “All stories are love stories when you love stories,” proves to be true in so many ways. Full of love, fun, magic, and intrigue, The Book Witch is yet another must-read from Sha...