NPR
George Saunders discusses his latest collection, Liberation Day, with Mary Louise Kelly.
Publishers Weekly
Review of Dunya Mikhail’s new novel The Bird Tattoo: Mikhail finds freedom in fiction.
Louisiana Channel
Torrey Peters on Detransition, Baby: “I was writing for a small trans scene, the ethos was trans women writing for other trans women.”
NEA
Joy Harjo’s Living Nations, Living Words has been chosen for NEA’s Read Across America for November 2022.
The New Yorker
Read Roxana Robinson’s op-ed “Wallace Stegner and the Trap of Using Other People’s Writing” here.
PBS Newshour
Cornelius Eady joins PBS for a conversation on exploring of the everyday lives of Black people in America.
LitHub
Random House will publish Liberation Day, George Saunders’ new short story collection, this year; his first since 2014.
Brooklyn Rail
What are white people so afraid of? Reflections on Claudia Rankine’s latest play, Help, now playing at The Shed.
New York Times
Confronting grief with Margaret Atwood, front line nurses, and Theater of War in The Nurse Antigone.
LA Review of Books
An open letter from translators and interpreters of Ukranian and/or Russian into English.