Man Booker Prize
Congratulations to George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo!
LA Review of Books
Review of Cristina García’s Here in Berlin: A dispersal of identities is what gives the book its strength.
New York Times
Natasha Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina included on list of What to Read Before You Go to Mississippi.
NYT Book Review
Review of Frank Bidart’s Half-light: his genius is his ability to transform a poem into a moral interrogation.
BBC
Read about Joy Harjo, the Endangered Poetry Project, and the preservation of a dying language as an act of resistance.
Narrative Magazine
Congratulations to Javier Zamora, winner of the 2017 Narrative Prize! Read his winning poems here.
The London Magazine
Analysis of Jorie Graham’s Fast: It immerses us in environmental violence, but what succeeds is the wish to live on.
National Book Award
Congratulations to Frank Bidart who was short-listed for the 2017 National Book Award for poetry for his collection Half-light.
5 Under 35
A huge congratulations to Lesley Nneka Arimah who was selected by the National Book Foundation as a 5 Under 35 honoree!
Kirkus Prize
Our very own Lesley Nneka Arimah long-listed for the Kirkus Prize in fiction for What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky.