literature

In two of his previous books, Randall Kenan created the town of Tims Creek, North Carolina. His stories of the goings-on of Tims Creek continue in his latest collection "If I Had Two Wings."

In Sue Miller’s latest novel, "Monogamy," Annie is a happy wife. Her husband, Graham, is a man with a magnetic personality and big appetites. One day, he seems preoccupied and distant, but her anxiety dissolves when he presents her with flowers. 

Likes is the latest short story collection by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, featuring nine stories.In these, she imagines Black and brown characters who don’t…

Joshua Bennett’s latest poetry collection is Owed. That’s O-W-E-D.  The book is a series of odes — lyric poetry in the form of an address to a particular…

Fifteen stories make up the debut collection by Jenny Bhatt, and each story is as different from the next as it can be, featuring diverse settings,…

MONDAY on "The Source" — Marlena Shaw's 1969 hit "California Soul" has been sampled time and time again, but Emily Lordi thinks the singer doesn't get…

The first thing you notice when you pick up this slim volume is the image on the cover featuring a young girl facing one way, standing on a shore by the…

Some students at the University of Texas-San Antonio have a new English literature class this fall that should resonate in their modern lives, although…

In Callan Wink’s novel, August, we follow the title character, August, from ages 12 to 19.  His parents divorce. He observes the many ways their union was…

The Heart and Other Monsters is a grief memoir, one that also intersects with a murder mystery. The first thing we learn when we read the first page of…