ARTICLE BY STARLA GATSONPHOTOGRAPHY BY KELLY MOORE CLARK H2Greaux has managed to grow into six greenhouses full of herbicide- and pesticide-free lettuce hydroponically, meaning no soil is involved and the resulting crop is cleaner than most grocery store offerings. It’s easy to go without thinking to...
REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “But at least she was married to the smartest, funniest man she had ever met, and that counted for everything…” In keeping with my current fascination with historical fiction, I anxiously cracked the new spine of Gill Paul’s 2022 novel The Manhattan Girls. I was intrigued ...
REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “The first weapon I ever held was my mother’s hand.” I didn’t so much fall in love with Jesmyn Ward’s novels as I did with the power of Ward’s writing. She tackles hard, gritty subject matter, exposing the underbelly of American reality, and in this novel American history,...