Southern Literary Review would like to announce that the College of Charleston will hold the Crazyhorse Writers Conference in March. Details about this event are available below. Visit the conference website by clicking here. The College of Charleston campus is one of the most beautiful and historic in America. It is also the home of […]
“Lions of the West,” by Robert Morgan
December 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Robert Morgan. Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011. Good histories don’t just tell stories; they make arguments. Robert Morgan’s arguments in Lions of the West, subtle though they are, run as follows: historians and storytellers cannot help but view dramatic […]
Read of the Month: Collected Works of American Novelist Ace Atkins
November 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Order Click to Order Infamous and The Ranger by Ace Atkins Review by Allen Mendenhall As an Auburn University instructor and a lifelong Auburn football fan with multigenerational ties to that school, I’m not neutral when it comes to Ace Atkins, an Auburn alumnus who lettered for the best damn football team […]
Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope
March 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope (Dallas, TX: Brown Books Publishing Group, 2010) Review by Allen Mendenhall DNA technology has revolutionized our criminal justice system. The acceptance and widespread use of post-conviction DNA testing for imprisoned individuals has led to exonerations all across America. Organizations such as […]