Casey N. Cep

A new book about the home of Reynolds Price asks whether there are better ways to memorialize a genius.

John T. Edge's "The Potlikker Papers" looks at multiculturalism, conflict, and civil rights in the American South—all through the history of the region's food.

Patricia Lockwood and Macy Halford interrogate their spiritual ancestors.

The author's new essay collection converses with the dead