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.”
The New Yorker
Read “Eshu or Ambition” a new poem by Kwame Dawes.
New York Times
Read Beth Ann Fennelly’s essay, “I Love My Students, but I Won’t Use a Gun to Protect Them” here.
The New Yorker
Read Adam Gopnik’s latest op-ed, “How to Build a Twenty-first-Century Tyrant.”
LitHub
Read “Dear American Gun Owner: When is Enough?,” an essay by Brenda Hillman.
A Letter from Eileen Myles
TO: PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS, LT GOV. KATHY HOCHUL, INTERIOR SECRETARY DEB HAALAND…
The New Yorker
Read “Sundown Walks to the Edge of the Story,” a new poem by Joy Harjo.