Bill Cheng’s debut novel, Southern Cross the Dog, channels Delta Blues mythology with striking authority
Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds, discusses the delicate art of writing about war
Acclaimed scholar Randall Fuller discusses the impact of the Civil War on Walt Whitman’s poetic vision
Elizabeth Strout follows up the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kittredge with The Burgess Boys, a subtle and richly drawn character study about the perils of coming home
In Wash, her debut novel, Margaret Wrinkle explores the horrors of slave breeding in antebellum Tennessee
