Esquire

Excerpt from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s forthcoming Chain Gang All-Stars: “She noticed her own steadiness… Strange. She’d counted herself wretched for so long.”

The Cut

Read an excerpt from Maggie Smith’s forthcoming memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful: “My marriage was never the same after that.”

The Offing

Read “Organized Decay” and other poems by Kimiko Hahn: “It’s true, too, that Ruin is formal— / a dart, a shadow.”

The Guardian

Read “Zucchini” a new poem by Peter Balakian: “So many hours I stared at the blotch / marks on her knuckles.”

New York Times

Read Beth Ann Fennelly’s essay, “I Love My Students, but I Won’t Use a Gun to Protect Them” here.