The Washington Post
Review of Dunya Mikhail’s latest: “In The Bird Tattoo, Iraqi women are sold as slaves.”
Review of Dunya Mikhail’s latest: “In The Bird Tattoo, Iraqi women are sold as slaves.”
Joy Harjo and the “portal to grace” in poetry; she believes that poems can give us “new ways to speak with each other.”
Read an excerpt from Percival Everett’s latest Dr. No: “John Milton Bradley Sill aspired to be a Bond villain, the fictitious nature of James Bond notwithstanding.”
Read this review of Francine Prose’s latest nonfiction book, Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth.
Read “The Squirrel” a new poem by Ellen Bass: “Humans are good at denial.”
All of the 2022 National Book Award finalists reviewed, including Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense and Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom.
Review of Eileen Myles’ Pathetic Literature anthology: “In general poems are pathetic. Really literature is pathetic. Ask anyone who doesn’t care about literature.”
Read this review of Jorie Graham’s [To] the Last [Be] Human, an expansive reflection on the shifting landscape of climate change.
Listen to a new interview with George Saunders on his writerly evolution: “You find a way to be distinctive.”
With Liberation Day, George Saunders delivers his first collection in nearly a decade. He’s had a lot of time to think—and write.