Anti-Nostalgia in the Millennial South
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Molly Silver left Los Angeles after the pandemic. In her debut novel, the native Tennessean returns to her roots and offers a rarely-seen portrait of the South.
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33 stories
Review: Gary Rivlin’s Saving Main Street
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
From 9/11 to the Great Recession, epoch-defining events often provide a windfall for America’s largest publishing houses. Yet, five years after 2020, the…
Review: Kash Patel’s Government Gangsters
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
For years, Kash Pramod Patel has fantasized about remaking the F.B.I. “in his own image.” At least that’s what The New York Times’s Adam Goldman reported this…
Book Review: David Mamet's Everywhere an Oink Oink
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Known for pioneering a clipped and circular style of tense workplace conversations in plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow, David Mamet spent a…
Book Review: Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s The Book of Elsewhere
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Though John Wick may have returned Keanu Reeves to the A-list, he has always done what he wants on his own terms, stretching his acting ability and…
Book Review: The War on Warriors by Pete Hegseth
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
A month ago, Americans who aren’t dedicated Fox Nation subscribers had likely never heard of Middle Tennessee resident Pete Hegseth. But, once Donald Trump…
Review: American Refugees
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Roger Simon is one of those California transplants to Tennessee we’ve heard so much about. The mystery novelist and former columnist for The Epoch Times spent…
Review: Michiko Kakutani’s The Great Wave
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
As the chief critic for The New York Times Book Review from 1983-2017, Michiko Kakutani anointed a host of 20th century literary titans like Zadie Smith, Ian…
Book Review: Choctaw Confederates
By Tyler Hummel
On the bizarre relationship between Natives and the Confederacy
The Rise of The Counterfeit Faculty
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
A Review of Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities
Review: Shepherds For Sale
By Tyler Hummel
Megan Basham’s new book on the politicization of the church sparks an Evangelical Civil War
Review: West from the Fallen Wall
By Roland T. Gunn
West from the Fallen Wall, Short Stories from the Pax Americana in Europe, is an impressive debut. Author Ryan Henderson’s unembellished yet resonant prose…
Book Review: In My Time of Dying
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Over the past four decades, journalist Sebastian Junger has routinely cheated death in warzones and fiefdoms in Afghanistan and Nigeria. His documentary…
Book Review: Adult Drama
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
What does art that passes an amorphous purity test look like? It’s the question that has remained woefully uninterrogated in the wake of #MeToo and the waves…
Post-Pandemic Literature and the Promise of America’s Future
By Jerod Ra'Del HollyfieldCulture
Michael Cunningham and Sloane Crosley prove the book may be the only way forward from our COVID malaise.
Defender of the Faith
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
A Review of Dave Verhaagen’s How White Evangelicals Think: The Psychology of White Conservative Christians
The Poetry of Craftsmen
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
A Review of Tom C. Hunley’s The Loneliest Whale in the World'
The Anti-Nostalgia of Bret Easton Ellis
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
A review of 'The Shards'
The Pleasures of Mob Rule
By Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
A review of Claire Dederer’s "Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma"
