The New Yorker
Read Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s latest story “Audition”: The roles we played were generic, superficial, and true.
LA Rev Books
A conversation with Kwame Dawes on the role of music in verse and the overlap between the two genres.
Irish Times
Review of Robin Robertson’s novel in verse The Long Take, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize: gripping and moving.
The Margins
Conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay on collaboration, epistolary poetry, and the intimacy of sentences.
LA Rev Books
A reflection on Tracy K. Smith as Poet Laureate, her admiration for Emily Dickinson, and what it means to be a Nobody, too.
NPR
Interview with Vanessa Hua on her recent novel A River of Stars: Are we perceived as eternal foreigners, no matter how deep our roots?
APR
American Poetry Review features Deborah Landau and her forthcoming Soft Targets, with several poems from the collection.
London Review
On Robin Robertson’s The Long Take: Catastrophe transformed to image to neutralise its pain is very much Robertson’s thing.
Chic Tribune Prize
George Saunders is a 2018 recipient of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for his first novel Lincoln in the Bardo.
NPR
Interview with Claudia Rankine on her art exhibit Stamped: One young woman said, “When I went blonde, I found myself.”