Review: American Refugees
Roger Simon is one of those California transplants to Tennessee we’ve heard so much about. The mystery novelist and former columnist for The
Review: Michiko Kakutani’s The Great Wave
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
Book Review: Choctaw Confederates
On the bizarre relationship between Natives and the Confederacy
The Rise of The Counterfeit Faculty
A Review of Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities
Review: Shepherds For Sale
Megan Basham’s new book on the politicization of the church sparks an Evangelical Civil War
Review: West from the Fallen Wall
West from the Fallen Wall, Short Stories from the Pax Americana in Europe, is an impressive debut. Author Ryan Henderson’s unembellished yet
Book Review: Adult Drama
What does art that passes an amorphous purity test look like? It’s the question that has remained woefully uninterrogated in the wake of #Me
Post-Pandemic Literature and the Promise of America’s Future
Michael Cunningham and Sloane Crosley prove the book may be the only way forward from our COVID malaise.
Defender of the Faith
A Review of Dave Verhaagen’s How White Evangelicals Think: The Psychology of White Conservative Christians
The Poetry of Craftsmen
A Review of Tom C. Hunley’s The Loneliest Whale in the World'
The Anti-Nostalgia of Bret Easton Ellis
A review of 'The Shards'
The Pleasures of Mob Rule
A review of Claire Dederer’s "Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma"
Bookville
Plenty Downtown Bookshop furthers Cookeville’s quiet transformation into one of the state’s most impressive cultural hubs.
In Loco Parentis
A review of Ian Prior’s Parents of the World Unite!: How to Save Our Schools from the Left’s Radical Agenda.
Radical Objectivity
A review of Jeff Fynn-Paul’s 'Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World'