Books

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The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South

A review of Gilbert King’s The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the search for Justice in the American South by Jay Blotcher.

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Dangerous Laughter

Pulitzer Prize winning author Steven Millhauser discusses his latest collection of short stories and his exceptional writing carreer.

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Willing

Hollis Seamon reviews Scott Spencer’s Willing.

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Short Takes

April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of dead land, mixing / Memory of desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” Drop that 1040 and read!