Reader’s Corner: Paul Theroux’s ‘Deep South’

Paul Theroux has spent decades traversing the world and writing about it. Although some of his fiction has been set in America, his travel writing has always been the sort of thing that required a passport. In his newest book,Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads, Theroux rectifies that oversight with a deep dive into the American south and its beautiful and fraught contradictions.

Deep Southhit stores last week.My reviewis atPopMatters.

There’s an essay called “The South of the South” that...