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Read Frank Bidart’s poem “Heartbeat” here: (creatures/bred now for slaughter will/then never be bred)

Review of Cristina Garcia’s Here in Berlin: the drive of the book is in the construction of a dazzling portrait.

Dani Shapiro discusses her memoir Hourglass: what I wanted to explore was the beauty, along with the troubles, of duration.

Solmaz Sharif awarded the 27th annual PEN Center USA Literary Award in poetry for her collection LOOK.

An interview with George Saunders on Lincoln, racial tension in America, and why the current US president is beyond satire.

Review of Javier Zamora’s Unaccompanied: A powerful portrait of the kind of nightmare that keeps parents up at night.

Review of Cristina Garcia’s Here in Berlin: an exhilarating orchestration of competing voices and temporalities.

Review of Eileen Myles’ memoir Afterglow: Myles has a history of carefully, skillfully, failing to meet expectations.

George Saunders is listed among finalists for the Carnegie Medal in fiction for his novel Lincoln In the Bardo.

Watch this interview with Aja Monet on My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter: If it can’t be spoken it ain’t worth writing.